Mumbai: After spending more than four years in prison, a sessions court on Thursday acquitted man who was booked for possessing counterfeit Rs 500 notes worth over Rs 5 lakh in January 2020.

Delay In FIR Registration Raises Questions

Mukeshkumar Suthar, a resident of Rajasthan, was acquitted due to several procedural lapses and unexplained delays in the investigation. The court noted that although the accused was caught with fake currency in January 2020, the FIR was registered only in January 2021.

“Even at the remand stage, the prosecution’s case was that the incident occurred on January 24, 2020, in Nagpada. But the FIR shows it was registered on January 26, 2021. The accused was shown arrested on January 25, 2021,” the court observed, adding that the one-year delay in filing the FI

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