India, July 5 -- The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the state government to urgently appoint a special public prosecutor in the Amboli Bar and Kitchen double murder case from 2011.

"We are adjourning these matters by 14 days but we are expecting that the state government appoints the special public prosecutor on urgent basis and the appointed special public prosecutor prepares himself before the next date," the division bench of justices Sarang Kotwal and Shyam Chandak said while hearing appeals by Sunil Bhot, Jitendra Rana, Deepak Piwal and Satish Dulgaj, who were convicted for the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment till death in 2016.

The case dates back to October 20, 2011, when a group of friends including 24-year-o...