The Delhi High Court on Thursday acquitted a man of the charges of raping and murdering an 81-year-old widow at her south Delhi residence over four years ago. The High Court, however, dubbed the crime as "horrific" and said that an elderly woman had been done to death in the most inhuman manner.

A bench of Justices S. Muralidhar and Vinod Goel acquitted domestic help Neeraj Safi of the charges pressed under Sections 302 (murder), 375 (rape) and 201 (destruction of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code. The High Court order to set aside a trial court's conviction order came on Safi's appeal.