Thirty-one years after being charged with gangrape, a 62-year-old man was acquitted last week by the sessions court, bringing the curtains down on one of its oldest pending cases.
With the victim, her husband and other key witnesses dead, and the investigating officer who retired in 1994 unable to recall details of the case, the court acquitted Chembur resident Abdul Shaikh.
An FIR accusing Shaikh of raping his maternal aunt, along with another accomplice, had been filed with the Chembur police on September 28, 1986. Shaikh, who had been living in West Asia since, returned five years ago and was arrested last September. Shaikh’s lawyer Tariq Khan said he was released from jail after the acquittal last Tuesday.Click Here: COLLINGWOOD MAGPIES 2019