New Delhi, March 21 -- A Rouse Avenue court has recently discharged a trader in a case of essential commodities after noting that the RTI reply revealed that those chemicals (reducer and Thinner) were not included in essential commodities.

This case is 15 years old and registered with the CBI. The CBI had filed a Charge sheet in 2011.

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Jyoti Maheshwari discharged Manish Kumar Aggarwal and Reliable Industries.

"Once the above RTI reply was furnished on behalf of the accused, it was incumbent on the prosecution to show otherwise, but this exercise was not carried out by the prosecution, for reasons best known to it," the court said in its March 11 order.

The allegations were that M/s Reliable I...