A Bhiwandi court in Maharashtra`s Thane district admitted a convict`s appeal and set aside an earlier order of a sessions court in a suicide abetment case and directed that he be released, reported news agency PTI.

The Bhiwandi court set aside the Thane sessions court`s 2015 order convicting Bhaskar Dhavalu Gavit (40) and sentencing him to four years of rigorous imprisonment for abetting a man`s suicide, reported PTI.