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A Thane court docket has acquitted 10 people accused in a 19-year-old case of rioting and making an attempt to homicide police personnel throughout a protest, citing imprecise and inadequate proof offered by the prosecution.
Further Classes Choose, Kalyan, PR Ashturkar, within the judgment on December 1, stated the prosecution couldn’t show any of the fees leveled in opposition to the accused past an affordable doubt.
A duplicate of the order was made accessible on Monday (December 8, 2025).
In keeping with the prosecution, the protest passed off at Ulhasnagar in Maharashtra’s Thane district on November 30, 2006, following an “disagreeable” incident at Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh on November 28 that 12 months.
Numerous individuals gathered and a few of them (accused) created a ruckus, triggered harm to personal and authorities properties and attacked police personnel and different individuals.
The police later registered a case in opposition to 14 individuals below varied IPC sections, together with try and homicide, rioting and illegal meeting, and provisions of the Bombay Police Act and the Prevention of Injury to Public Property Act.
The case in opposition to 4 of the accused was abated as a result of their loss of life throughout the pendency of the trial.
The choose within the order stated, “It may be seen that there isn’t a proof of any impartial witness. As no identification parade was performed, there’s completely nothing on file as to how the current accused had been recognized, that too from the mob of 2000 to 2500 individuals.”
“The proof adduced by the prosecution may be very normal and imprecise. It isn’t adequate sufficient to convey dwelling the guilt of the accused individuals, that too past affordable doubt,” the court docket stated.
The court docket additionally famous that two key witnesses “resiled” from their earlier statements and didn’t help the prosecution’s case.
These acquitted within the case are Kishor Tarachand Pawar (autorickshaw driver), Milind Damodar Nikam, Nitin Rohidas Bhalerao (each singers), Pankaj Sitaram Baviskar, Sanjay Dhudku Jadhav (businessmen), Parmeshwar Dilip Baviskar, Sanjay Ratan Nikam (laborers), Vijay Bharat Tambe (painter), Sunil Pralhad Sakpale (tailor), Gautam Ramdas Dhivre, who labored in a personal firm.
Printed – December 08, 2025 12:10 pm IST