India, March 30 -- A Delhi court on Friday acquitted 12 men accused of killing two persons in separate instances and throwing their bodies into a drain during the northeast Delhi riots in February 2020, observing that their conversation in a WhatsApp chat confessing the murders does not constitute substantive evidence.

Additional sessions judge (ASJ) Pulastya Pramachala of Karkardooma court delivered separate judgements acquitting Lokesh Solanki and 11 others in cases related to the murders of Bhure Ali and Aamin (went by a single name), whose bodies were allegedly dumped in the Johripur and Bhagirathi drains in Gokalpuri. The court noted that messages exchanged in a WhatsApp group could not serve as primary evidence to establish the acc...