Mumbai, Jan. 11 -- A metropolitan magistrate court in Mumbai on Sunday acquitted Congress Member of Parliament Varsha Gaikwad and Nationalist Congress Party leader Zeeshan Siddique in a case related to an alleged unlawful assembly during a Gandhi Jayanti rally held here in 2023.
The court held that the prosecution had failed to establish the essential ingredients of the offence beyond reasonable doubt.
Along with Gaikwad and Siddique, the court also acquitted Charanjitsingh Sapra, Armaity Irani, Rakhi Jadhav, Sandeep Shukla, Shaukat Shaikh and Hussain Dalwai. While delivering the order, the court observed that although the alleged place of offence was a crowded area, the prosecution did not examine a single independent witness to support ...