India, April 6 -- The Delhi High Court has acquitted two former engineers of the Delhi government's flood control department in a 35-year-old corruption case in which they were accused of demanding a bribe of Rs.900.

A bench of Justice Chandrashekharan Sudha, in her April 2 verdict, set aside the trial court's September 2002 order convicting and sentencing the two-Dinesh Garg and VK Datta-to two years' imprisonment. The bench held that the material on record was insufficient to establish their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and that the trial court erred in relying on unsatisfactory evidence.

In its 48-page verdict, the court observed that the FIR was registered even before the complainant reached the Central Bureau of Investigation's ...