A court in Maharashtra’s Thane district acquitted four men accused of 2022 murder case of a man, citing that the prosecution had based the case entirely on circumstantial evidence, reported the PTI.

Principal District and Sessions Judge S B Agrawal acquitted the accused, Pravin Ramdas Jagtap, Rahul Virbhan Suryavanshi, Akshay Lahu Patil, and Ajinkya Ramdas Patil, of charges under sections 302 (murder), 120(B) (criminal conspiracy), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence), and 364 (abduction) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).