THANE, March 20 -- A court in Maharashtra's Thane has acquitted five men in a 2018 case of kidnapping and murder of a man, whose body was allegedly thrown from a local train, observing that the prosecution failed to prove the chain of circumstantial evidence. Principal District and Sessions Judge S B Agrawal, in his judgment delivered on Wednesday, cleared Ravi Ashok Choudhary (37), Rajendraprasad Shivyadnya Tiwari (47), Sanjivkumar Upadhyay (38), Ashokkumar Shukla (40), and Ramashankar Tiwari (28) of all charges, including murder and criminal conspiracy. The prosecution alleged that the victim, Surendra Mishra, was murdered because of his love affair with the daughter of accused Rajendraprasad Tiwari.
The prosecution claimed that Mishra w...