In an important development in the Khwaja Yunus custodial death case, Sessions Court judge V M  Pathade ruled on Wednesday that the four policemen named by eyewitness Dr Abdul Mateen as having thrashed 27-year-old Khwaja Yunus in the Ghatkopar lock-up till he collapsed, would not be added as accused in the case. 

Yunus, a computer engineer, was arrested for the December 2002 Ghatkopar bomb blast which killed two persons. Dr Mateen was a co-accused in the case. In January 2003, within a fortnight of his arrest, Yunus was reported “missing’’, with cops saying that he had escaped from a police vehicle while being taken to Aurangabad.