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Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Thursday (May 7) upheld the acquittal of the 22 accused, including 21 police personnel from Gujarat and Rajasthan and the owner of a farmhouse where Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife, Kauser Bi, were detained before they were killed.

A division bench, comprising Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and justice Gautam Ankhad, dismissed the appeals filed by Sohrabuddin’s brothers, Rubabuddin and Nayabuddin Sheikh, against the December 2018 verdict of a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court acquitting all the accused in the case. A detailed copy of the judgement is yet to be made public.

The case dates back to November 22, 2005, when Sohrabuddin, Kauser Bi, and Tulsiram Prajapati were intercepted by the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad while travelling by bus from Hyderabad to Sangli, Maharashtra. The trio was taken into custody near Zahirabad in Telangana, following which Sohrabuddin and his wife were allegedly taken to a farmhouse in Valsad, Gujarat.

Sohrabuddin was killed in an alleged fake encounter on a highway near Ahmedabad on November 26. Police........

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