India, Dec. 17 -- The Bombay High Court on Monday acquitted two diamond traders who were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnapping and murdering an angadiya (informal banking/ courier agent) in November 2011 after robbing diamonds worth Rs.1 crore from him.

The court gave the benefit of doubt to the two accused, Naresh Golani and Dharmesh Patel, after noticing that the prosecution had failed to prove the complete chain of circumstances.

"An analysis of the evidence and material on record shows that the prosecution has failed to prove the incriminating circumstances beyond reasonable doubt and the chain of circumstances is consequently left incomplete," the division bench of justices Manish Pitale and Manjusha Deshpande...