Chandigarh, April 17 -- Over 35 years after a murder case was registered against him when he was 24 years old, a man, now 61, has been acquitted by a Chandigarh court due to lack of evidence.

After being accused of murdering an 11-year-old boy during a robbery in 1989, Anand Kumar had remained on the run, leading to him being declared a proclaimed offender (PO).

He was eventually arrested in 2024, leading to the commencement of the trial.

Months later, the court of additional district judge Ashwini Kumar acquitted Anand.

The case against Anand was initially registered by the Sector 3 police station in 1989.

According to the prosecution's case, in January 1989, an 11-year-old boy named Omkar was brutally murdered in the forest area of...