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A Delhi court has acquitted 16 accused persons of various charges, including rioting, arson and unlawful assembly in a 2012 case, outlining “serious doubts” in the prosecution’s story.

Additional sessions judge Virender Kumar Kharta was hearing a matter in which the men were accused of unlawful assembly, pelting stones, rioting and arson, torching a police station and committing theft in the Urdu Bazar area near Jama Masjid on the intervening night of 21-22 July, 2012.

On September 24, the court said none of the several prosecution witnesses identified any accused persons, nor did they explain their individual roles, raising “serious doubts” on the prosecution’s story.

It said the investigating officer (IO) failed to collect CCTV footage of the spot or the a

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