A Bhiwandi court in Maharashtra's Thane district admitted a convict's appeal and set aside an earlier order of a sessions court in a suicide abetment case and directed that he be released, reported news agency PTI.

The Bhiwandi court set aside the Thane sessions court's 2015 order convicting Bhaskar Dhavalu Gavit (40) and sentencing him to four years of rigorous imprisonment for abetting a man's suicide, reported PTI.