New Delhi, March 5 -- The Karkardooma Court acquitted a person accused in a 27-year-old case related to death and injuries due to negligence. The case pertains to a ceiling collapse during the construction work of a house in the Bhajanpura area in September 1999.

It took 27 years for Shiv Dutt to get acquitted in this case. Now he is not even able to walk. His grandson attended the court on the date of the judgement.

An FIR was lodged on September 16, 1999, on the complaint filed by Murari Lal Sharma, who was one of the injured. One of the prosecution's witnesses turned hostile during the trial. Other witnesses also did not support the case of the prosecution.

Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Pankaj Rai acquitted Shiv Dutt, notin...