A Thane court has acquitted two persons in the case of the killing of a man in 2014, noting the prosecution failed to establish a "direct nexus" between the accused and the murder, reported news agency PTI.

Additional Sessions Judge D S Deshmukh, in the order on December 5, also observed there was no eyewitness to confirm the 'last seen' theory involving the accused -- Rizwan Najar Abbas Sayyed alias Pathan (34) and Anil Ramkishan Gupta (36), reported PTI.