New Delhi, April 21 -- The Supreme Court has acquitted a man in the 2017 rape and murder of a school headmistress in Assam, citing a lack of evidence connecting him to the crime. A bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta dismissed Assam government's appeal and upheld the Gauhati high court's decision to acquit Moinul Haque, observing that his arrest, in the first place, was "shrouded in a cloud of doubt". The court also set aside his conviction under section 201 of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly destroying evidence, even though Haque had not challenged that part of the verdict. ".the very arrest of the accused-respondent in the present case is shrouded in a cloud of doubt," held the bench, underlining serious infirmities in the...