Four alleged members of the Chhota Shakeel gang were acquitted by a special MCOCA court in Mumbai for plotting the murder of a former associate over monetary issues. The court refused to accept the prosecution s case based on confessional statements and acquitted the accused. | Mumbai news
A UP jail superintendent has been ordered to face a departmental inquiry for releasing three men booked in an extortion case in Mumbai and failing to inform a special court. The trio were sent to UP for trial in a cheating case, and were released after a local court granted bail in June and July 2022. They had been arrested in an extortion case in Mumbai and in the Nasik arms haul case in December 2017. | Mumbai news
In September 2015, the special MCOCA court had awarded death sentences to five convicts and life imprisonment to seven others. A death sentence awarded by the trial court has to be confirmed by the HC.