The Bombay High Court will conduct the final hearing in December on appeals challenging the acquittal of all 22 accused booked in the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Shaikh. The appeals were filed by Shaikh’s brothers, Rubabuddin and Nayabuddin, in 2019, challenging the acquittal of the accused, including policemen, calling the trial “flawed”.

On Wednesday, a division bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad said that the appeals were pending since 2019, and four hearings were conducted in the past three years, but some of the acquitted accused had not appeared before it.

The court directed that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which conducted the probe in the case, serve the notices to those accused who are not appearing through their lawyers

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