Meerut, Feb. 8 -- Bringing legal proceedings in the Village Mohammadpur Raisingh riot-related case to a close more than a decade after the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, the court of additional district and sessions judge (ADJ) in Muzaffarnagar district acquitted 23 accused, citing lack of evidence, on Saturday. They had been accused of murder, arson, vandalism and looting.

The verdict was delivered by ADJ Court No. 4 in connection with violence that took place in Village Mohammadpur Raisingh under the Bhora Kalan police station limits.

The case pertained to the large-scale communal violence that erupted in the district on September 7, 2013, in which several people lost their lives. On September 8, a mob allegedly entered Mohammadpur Raising...