Thane : A Thane court has acquitted a woman and her paramour accused of murdering her husband in 2018, noting the prosecution failed to prove the case, which was based on circumstantial evidence.

Principal District and Sessions Judge S B Agrawal, in the order passed on Friday, said that though there is material to suggest that there was an extra-marital relationship between both the accused and their conduct after the incident was suspicious, there is no sufficient material to conclude that they had committed the victim’s murder.

The accused, Priya Gopi Naik (34) and Mahesh Govind Karale (32), had been charged with murder , criminal conspiracy, administering a stupefying substance, and causing disappearance of evidence.

The prosecution alleged that on December 28, 2018, the two acc

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