New Delhi, June 14 -- A Delhi court has discharged an Indian man wrongfully accused in connection with a murder in Australia's Redfern in 2003 after forensic tests confirmed it was a case of mistaken identity.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pranav Joshi on June 13 exonerated Mohammed Basheeruddin, who had been arrested last month, after a report from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) revealed that his fingerprints did not match those found at the crime scene in Australia.

"The fingerprints of the arrested individual do not match those of the original fugitive criminal," the judge noted in court. "In view of this, Mohammed Basheeruddin is discharged from the present proceedings."

The murder occurred on the night o...