Mohali, Oct. 16 -- A sessions court convicted one man for possessing demonetised currency worth Rs.25,500, imposing a fine of Rs.1 lakh five times the recovered amount while acquitting him and two others of charges linked to a 2017 attack on a lawyer, citing doubts over identification and gaps in forensic evidence.

Additional sessions judge Navdeep Kaur Gill pronounced the judgment in a case concerning an attack on advocate Harkishan Singh near the Dera Radha Swami Satsang Beas branch in Mohali on May 26, 2017.

According to the prosecution, a white Swift car stopped in front of Singh's scooter. One of the occupants allegedly tried to hit him with an iron rod, while another fired two shots. Singh escaped and reached the judicial complex....