Key Points
A SPECIAL court, in its detailed order in the 1988 case related to the alleged conspiracy to murder industrialist Nusli Wadia, has said that there was no evidence to show that Kirti Ambani, a former general manager with Reliance Industries Limited, was tasked by his superiors to arrange, plan or execute a conspiracy to eliminate the chairperson of Wadia Group...
Ambani and co-accused Arjun Babaria passed away pending trial..
There is no evidence to the effect that, accused no.1 (Ambani) was put to task by his superiors to arrange/plan/execute a conspiracy to eliminate PW 39 (Wadia)..
The evidence of birthday parties, functions, musical programmes manifests the familiarity of accused no 1 and 2 (Ambani and Babaria), however, there is no evidence that the said familiarity between them had ripened to design or to do any criminal act in association, the court said...
Nothing more and nothing less, the court said, stating that the motive for alleged participation of the accused cannot be gathered from evidence and a necessary meeting of minds to prove conspiracy is not proved beyond reasonable doubt..
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