MUMBAI, May 8 -- The Bombay high court on Thursday upheld the acquittal of the 22 accused, including 21 police officers, in the alleged fake encounter killings and murder of gangster Sohrabuddin Shaikh, his wife Kausar Bi, and associate Tulsiram Prajapati between November 2005 and December 2006. A division bench of chief justice Shree Chandrashekhar and justice Gautam Ankhad dismissed the appeals filed by the slain gangster's brothers, Rubabuddin and Nayabuddin Shaikh, against the December 2018 verdict of a special CBI court, which acquitted the 22 accused due to lack of evidence and witnesses turning hostile. The 22 acquitted accused include 21 junior-level officers from the Gujarat and Rajasthan police and the owner of a farmhouse in Gujarat where Shaikh and his wife were allegedly detained before they were killed. The detailed judgement of the high court is not yet available. The case dates back to November 23, 2005, when Sohrabuddin, Kausar Bi and Prajapati were traveling by bus from Hyderabad to Sangli. A joint team of the Gujarat and Rajasthan police intercepted the bus at Zahirabad in Telangana and took custody of the trio. Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bi were allegedly taken to a farmhouse in Valsad and later shifted to a guesthouse near Ahmedabad, while Prajapati was taken into custody by the Rajasthan police on November 26, 2005, in connection with a case registered against him in Bhilwara. According to CBI, officers from the Gujarat and Rajasthan police killed Sohrabuddin in a fake encounter on a highway in Ahmedabad on November 26, 2005....