MUMBAI, Oct. 31 -- A special CBI court has acquitted incarcerated gangster Chhota Rajan and four others in a 17-year-old attempt-to-murder case, where former Shiv Sena leader Ajay Bhosale was targeted in a shooting in Pune during the 2009 Maharashtra assembly election campaign. On Friday, Special Judge Narendranath Ravindranath Pradhan acquitted Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan, Mohammad Shakib Shahnawaj Alam Khan, businessman Surendra Kumar Bhramadatt Agarwal, Rajesh Dodaram Yadav and Vijay Purshottam Salvi alias Vijay Tambat of charges of attempted murder, criminal conspiracy and offences under the Arms Act. The court also ordered Rajan and Khan to be released from custody if they were not required in any other case. Rajan is lodged in Delhi's Tihar Jail, serving a life sentence for the 2011 murder of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. Bhosale was attacked in Koregaon Park on October 11, 2009, when two motorcycle-borne assailants opened fire at his vehicle as he was campaigning for the election. Bhosale escaped unhurt, but a bullet struck and injured his driver, Shakeel Sayyed. The prosecution alleged the attack was linked to a property dispute between Agarwal and his brothers, RK Agarwal and VK Agarwal. They said Agarwal had allegedly approached Rajan through his associate Tambat to exert pressure on his brother over the division of the family's property. Bhosale, a friend of RK Agarwal, was allegedly targeted after he failed to intervene....