Mumbai News LIVE Updates: A court here on Thursday acquitted a 73-year-old man in an attempted murder case, 48 years after the alleged incident took place in 1977 as the female victim denied remembering the occurrence. We are closing the LIVE blog now

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: No one should indulge in politics in the Beed sarpanch murder case and it must be ensured that all accused get strict punishment, senior Nationalist Congress Party leader and former Union minister Praful Patel said. Santosh Deshmukh, sarpanch of Massajog village in Beed, was abducted, tortured and murdered on December 9 after he tried to stop an extortion bid on an energy firm helming a windmill project in that district. We are closing the LIVE blog now