Panchkula, Feb. 9 -- A local court has acquitted Mandeep Singh alias Monu of Kalka in a motorcycle theft case, highlighting serious lapses in the prosecution's case, particularly the absence of independent witnesses and failure to produce CCTV footage from the alleged place of occurrence.

Mandeep was arrested on May 24, 2022, based on an FIR registered on May 7, 2022, at Sector-7 police station under Sections 379 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code. The court of the judicial magistrate pronounced the acquittal on February 4.

According to the prosecution, complainant Sanjeev Kumar had reported the theft of his motorcycle on the evening of May 6, 2022, from outside the gate of civil hospital, Sector 6, where he had gone to collect medicines....