The Delhi High Court acquitted Mahmood Farooqui, co-director of Bollywood film 'Peepli Live' in a rape case involving a US researcher, saying he was entitled to benefit of doubt as the testimony of the victim was not reliable.

Justice Ashutosh Kumar set aside the trial court order, which had awarded a seven-year jail term to Farooqui after convicting him for the alleged rape of a 30-year-old American researcher at his south Delhi residence in March 2015.