A Sessions court has acquitted five CISF officers who were accused of assaulting a traffic constable in 2010. Judge V V Patil acquitted Alok Joshi, Sathulsinha Sinha, Kalysinha Bhadoria, Ravishankar Pandey and Swaroop Nayak. The lower court in 2015 had convicted all the officers and sentenced them to eight months in prison, following which the officers filed an appeal in the sessions court.

The case
The incident happened between the staff and officers of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and the police. At 8am on August 8, 2010, traffic constable Pramod Shantaram Tawade, who was with the Traffic Division, Wadala, and his colleagues, resumed duty at Orange Gate No 4.