Overview
- A division bench led by Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad dismissed the brothers’ appeals on Thursday, leaving the 2018 acquittals intact.
- The order covers 21 police personnel from Gujarat and Rajasthan and a Gujarat farmhouse owner, with the detailed judgment to follow.
- The CBI told the High Court in October 2025 it accepted the trial court verdict and would not file its own appeal.
- The special CBI court in December 2018 cited thin documentary proof and 92 hostile witnesses as it cleared the accused, and it said investigators pushed a pre-set theory.
- Earlier discharges removed several senior figures from the case, and the Supreme Court had moved the probe to the CBI and the trial to Mumbai, while today’s ruling closes this criminal trial even as questions about accountability persist.