A court here has acquitted Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in a case registered against him and others in 2006 in connection with poll violence in 1999.
Judicial Magistrate Satish Kumar acquitted Mr. Badal, who is also president of the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal, for insufficient evidence.
Mr. Badal appeared in the court here on Saturday in connection with the case.
Naresh Sehgal, a Kotkapura resident, had filed a case against Mr. Badal and a few others in connection with the poll violence that took place in Kotkapura in 1999 when Mr. Badal had contested the parliamentary elections from Faridkot.
The case against Mr. Badal and others was registered on the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2006 after Mr. Sehgal had approached the court.
The High Court had put a stay on the case in September 2008 but it was vacated by a single-judge bench on December 21 last year. -- PTI
