India, Dec. 29 -- A city court has acquitted three people in a 2009 acid attack case as the prosecution failed to prove the charges, and rapped the police for conducting a "nonchalant and unprofessional" investigation that appeared was to shield the culprits.
In an order dated December 24, 2025, and made available on Sunday, Additional Sessions Judge Jagmohan Singh acquitted Yashwinder, Bala and Mandeep, who were accused of hatching a criminal conspiracy with a juvenile to carry out acidattack on MBA student Shaheen Malik in Haryana's Panipat. The juvenile was convicted of the crime on December 17, 2015.
"From the very beginning, the investigation was conducted in the most nonchalant and unprofessional manner, showing no sensitivity to th...