MUMBAI MIRROR (June 18, 2019)

A Mumbai court on Monday acquitted Vidyut Jammwal and his friend in a 2007 assault case.

Metropolitan magistrate Pragati Yerlekar acquitted Vidyut and his friend Rishant Goswami of all the charges levelled against them. Details of the order are awaited.

The actor and his friend were accused of hitting one Rahul Suri, a resident of Juhu area, with a bottle at a suburban five-star hotel in Santacruz in August 2007.

During the trial, the court examined two witnesses, the police officer who recorded the First Information Report (FIR) and another person.

Vidyut’s lawyer Aniket Nikam had argued before the court that the actor and his friend were innocent. “They were never involved in the alleged incident. There was no satisfactory evidence to point out before the court the culpability of my clients,” Nikam was quoted as saying on Monday.