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A Thane tribunal has acquitted 10 individuals accused successful a 19-year-old lawsuit of rioting and attempting to execution constabulary unit during a protest, citing vague and insufficient grounds presented by the prosecution.
Additional Sessions Judge, Kalyan, P. R. Ashturkar, successful the judgement connected December 1, said the prosecution could not beryllium immoderate of the charges levelled against the accused beyond a tenable doubt.
A transcript of the bid was made disposable connected Monday (December 8, 2025).
According to the prosecution, the protestation took spot astatine Ulhasnagar successful Maharashtra's Thane territory connected November 30, 2006, pursuing an "unpleasant" incidental astatine Kanpur successful Uttar Pradesh connected November 28 that year.
A ample fig of radical gathered and immoderate of them (accused) created a ruckus, caused harm to backstage and authorities properties and attacked constabulary unit and different persons.
The constabulary aboriginal registered a lawsuit against 14 persons nether assorted IPC sections, including effort to murder, rioting and unlawful assembly, and provisions of the Bombay Police Act and the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.
The lawsuit against 4 of the accused was abated owed to their decease during the pendency of the trial.
The justice successful the bid said, "It tin beryllium seen that determination is nary grounds of immoderate autarkic witness. As nary recognition parade was conducted, determination is perfectly thing connected grounds arsenic to however the contiguous accused were identified, that excessively from the mob of 2000 to 2500 persons."
"The grounds adduced by the prosecution is precise wide and vague. It is not capable capable to bring location the guilt of the accused persons, that excessively beyond tenable doubt," the tribunal said.
The tribunal besides noted that 2 cardinal witnesses "resiled" from their erstwhile statements and did not enactment the prosecution's case.
Those acquitted successful the lawsuit are Kishor Tarachand Pawar (autorickshaw driver), Milind Damodar Nikam, Nitin Rohidas Bhalerao (both singers), Pankaj Sitaram Baviskar, Sanjay Dhudku Jadhav (businessmen), Parmeshwar Dilip Baviskar, Sanjay Ratan Nikam (labourers), Vijay Bharat Tambe (painter), Sunil Pralhad Sakpale (tailor), Gautam Ramdas Dhivre, who worked successful a backstage company.
