India, April 4 -- The Indore district and sessions court on Thursday acquitted two people associated with the Trust of an illegally constructed temple over lack of evidence, two years after 36 devotees died when the stepwell of the structure collapsed in March 2023.

Sewaram Galani, president of Shri Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal Temple Trust which manages the temple, and secretary Murli Kumar Sabnani were acquitted after the court found lapses on the part of the police to prove their involvement in the incident.

"Judge Jitendra Singh Kushwaha said the police should have made the municipal corporation officials accused, but it was not done. At the same time, the police could not prove the charges of 'culpable homicide, not amounting to murd...