Bombay court acquits all 4 accused in Patrawala murder

January 30, 2012 14:00

Just In: Toral Varia reports that all the four accused in the Adnan Patrawala murder case have been acquitted by a Mumbai court today.

Adnan was found murdered in August 2007, he was 16 at the time. His body was found in the bushes of Navi Mumbai, and he was found to have been strangled to death.

According to his family, Adnan had left home the previous day to meet his friends, and the police found his father's car on Palm Beach Road, Vashi. The murder created outrage in Mumbai and the police quickly arrested five of his friends, including two teenagers, one of them a minor who was tried by the juvenile board. The four adults, who were acquitted, today. are Sujit Nair, Ayush Bhat, Rajeev Dharaiya and Amit Kausha.

The police claimed that the friends met Adnan in Mumbai's InOrbit mall, where they spiked his drink, and kidnapped him. The next day his father received a ransom call for Rs 2 crore. As the news broke, the police said, the kidnappers panicked and strangled him to death.

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