India, July 2 -- The Delhi High Court has set aside the conviction of former Major General Anand Kumar Kapur in a disproportionate assets case, holding that the trial court adopted an unduly technical and hasty approach by prematurely closing the defence evidence without affording him a reasonable opportunity to examine his remaining witnesses.

A bench of Justice Jasmeet Singh in his 117-page verdict delivered on Wednesday, also found serious infirmities in how the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) obtained sanction for prosecution. The court observed that the sanctioning authority had not been provided with the complete investigative record and had instead considered only such material as the investigating officer had chosen to plac...