New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- The younger brother of deceased Sohrabuddin Sheikh has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court's decision upholding the acquittal of 22 accused in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case, including 21 policemen from Gujarat, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh.

Nayabuddin Shaikh has challenged the High Court order by which it had, on May 7, dismissed appeals against the acquittal of all the accused.

The High Court had said that the prosecution had failed to establish the case and observed that it finds no ground to interfere with the trial court judgment acquitting the accused.

It had added that the prosecution case is based on circumstantial evidence and there are several broken links in the ch...