Mumbai: 21 years later, court upholds acquittal of nine accused of killing couple

Mumbai | Wednesday | 7th November, 2018

Summary:

(Express Photo by Pradeep Kocharekar)The Bombay High Court recently upheld the judgment of a sessions court in Pune acquitting nine persons accused of killing a couple in 1997 allegedly because they did not approve of their relationship. The state had filed an appeal before the High Court against the acquittal of nine persons by a session judge in Pune in June 1997. (Express Photo by Pradeep Kocharekar) The state had filed an appeal before the High Court against the acquittal of nine persons by a session judge in Pune in June 1997. All the accused were acquitted by the Pune sessions court in 1997. The prosecutor told the court that on the night of October 6, 1995, Gore and Shivaji went missing..