![Seventeen years after guilty sentence, Supreme Court acquits man convicted of Rape [Read Judgment]](http://media.assettype.com/barandbench%2Fimport%2F2019%2F01%2FAM-Sapre-and-Dinesh-Maheshwari.jpg?w=480&auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=max)
Nearly seventeen years after he was sentenced to undergo seven years’ rigorous imprisonment by a trial court, the Supreme Court today acquitted a man accused of rape. The Bench of Justices AM Sapre and Dinesh Maheshwari passed the ruling in an appeal filed by the man (appellant) in 2014.