India, July 26 -- The sessions court on Wednesday acquitted a 52-year-old man arrested in March for a robbery nearly 33 years ago, while also discharging his three alleged accomplices, who were never caught, due to the lack of evidence against them.

The four men were accused of stealing Rs.1 lakh in cash from a jeweller in December 1992. They had been absconding since then, before Izaz Shaikh was caught by the police in March.

According to the police, the complainant, the son of a jeweller, was on his way to his father's shop on Bangalipara Street in Mumbai with Rs.1 lakh in cash on a two-wheeler. When he reached the Bhendi Bazaar junction, two men allegedly kicked his two-wheeler down and threatened him with a revolver. Two other men p...