The Bombay High Court was told on Friday that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by it had managed to trace four witnesses in a 1996 custodial death case of an undertrial in Thane Jail.

Robert Almeida, who assaulted his father in a drunken state on August 28, 1996, was arrested by the Vikhroli police. He was sent to the Thane Central Prison were he was allegedly assaulted by cops and died in the Thane Central Hospital the same night.