Thane: A local court in Thane has acquitted a 24-year -old man in a 2014 murder case giving him the benefit of doubt.

District Principal Judge SK Kotwal in his judgement, pronounced recently, observed that the prosecution failed to prove the case under IPC section 302 (murder) beyond reasonable doubt, and hence, gave the benefit of doubt to accused Mohammad Jiyaullah alias Ansari. Ansari, who worked at a textile factory in Bhiwandi here, was accused of killing his colleague Rehman Ansari, aged 25 at the time of incident, on September 1, 2014.