India, May 8 -- The High Court of Chhattisgarh has upheld the acquittal of all accused in the 2010 Tadmetla massacre case, observing that the prosecution failed to produce legally admissible and reliable evidence linking the accused to the killing of 76 security personnel in one of the deadliest Maoist attacks in the country.

A division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal dismissed the state government's acquittal appeal and upheld the 2013 trial court judgment acquitting ten accused in the case related to the April 6, 2010 attack in Tadmetla forest of Sukma district.

According to the prosecution, a joint team of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and state police personnel was on an area domination o...