Mohali, June 4 -- Holding that the prosecution failed to establish a complete chain of circumstances linking the accused to the killing, a Mohali court has acquitted three men in a 2019 murder case. The court noted that the evidence relied upon fell short of the standard required to secure a conviction in cases based entirely on circumstantial evidence.

Additional sessions judge Hardip Singh acquitted Gaj Ram, Mahavir Singh and Satbir Singh in the murder case of Sham Singh, whose body was recovered on October 29, 2019 with multiple injuries near Sector 65, Mohali. The court pronounced the verdict on June 2 after a trial that lasted nearly six years.

According to the prosecution, the accused murdered Sham Singh, robbed him of cash and pe...