New Delhi, May 20: Former Aligarh Muslim University scholar Gulzar Ahmed Wani was today acquitted by a Barabanki court of the charge of orchestrating a blast in Sabarmati Express in 2000.
According to the counsel for the accused, the court freed Wani and co-accused Mobin as there was no evidence for the allegations made against them.
"The court of Additional Sessions Judge M A Khan acquitted both the accused of all the charges as the prosecution could not establish any of the charges levelled against them," advocate M S Khan said over phone.
Wani, who was arrested by Delhi Police in 2001, is a resident of Peeparkari area of Srinagar and is currently lodged in a jail in Lucknow.
Police had claimed that they had recovered explosives and incriminating materials. They had also suspected him to be a Hizbul Mujahideen operative.
The blast was carried out on the eve of Independence Day when the train was on its way from Muzaffarpur to Ahmedabad, claiming nine lives.
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