Panchkula, Nov. 23 -- A Panchkula court has acquitted a city resident in a 2019 fatal road accident case, citing the Panchkula police's investigative and procedural failures, including a lack of clarity on the territorial jurisdiction of the mishap.

Ravi Ojha, a resident of Sector 25, was booked in case registered under Sections 279 (rash driving) and 304-A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code at the Sector 20 police station on February 27, 2019. This came after the body of Subhash, a labourer hailing from Uttar Pradesh and residing in Zirakpur, was found at the Dera Bassi civil hospital.

The victim's friend, Guddu, had told police that on the fateful day, the duo was heading towards Sector 20, Panchkula, when a motorc...