India, May 26 -- A 37-year-old madrasa teacher who has been in jail under the anti-terror law since 2015 was acquitted by a Cuttack court on Tuesday, holding that the prosecution had "failed miserably" to prove any of its charges despite examining 46 witnesses and relying on 55 documents.

Cuttack district and sessions judge Manas Ranjan Barik acquitted Mohammad Abdur Raheman Alli Khan, also known as Maulana Mansoor, of all charges under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Section 124-A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code. Raheman was accused on recruiting youth for Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and charged with terrorism, terror funding and recruiting youth for a terror group.

The judge trashed the prosecution case...