Surat: A local court on Monday acquitted five persons accused in a March 2003 case registered under the various sections of Explosive Substance Act. The court of 11th additional sessions judge acquitted Selvaraj alias Selu Pyappan Cavander, Shanmuga Sundaram Srinivasan Kaundar, Ramesh Hiralal Kapadiya, Rushabh Rajmal Shah and Karansinh Pratapsinh Solanki for lack of evidence.
Of the two other accused in the case registered in March 2003 Sandip and Ganesh Solanki had died during the course of the trial. One other accused Vijayan alias Vijay Toraiswami Adidravidar could not be traced by the investigating agency. According to case details, a complaint was lodged by Jitendra Khumansinh Rao, police sub-inspector with crime branch on March 28, 2003 after the crime branch team raided an apartment on Ghod Dod Road. Rao further stated they had recovered explosives from an apartment in Ajit Park society behind Vrundavan Park on Ghod Dod Road. Some of the accused were nabbed from the spot.