Srinagar, June 2 -- The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has acquitted two persons convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in a 2013 murder case from Kulgam, holding that the prosecution failed to establish an unbroken chain of evidence proving their guilt beyond reasonable doubt.

A Division Bench comprising Justices Sanjay Dhar and Sanjay Parihar allowed the criminal appeals filed by Ali Mohammad Dar and Mst Muzamilla, the wife of the deceased overturning the judgment of the Principal Sessions Judge, Kulgam, which had convicted them under Section 302 RPC for the murder of Abdul Rashid Dar of Modergam.

The case pertained to the death of Abdul Rashid Dar, whose body was found hanging from a tree in an orchard on December 21,...