Surender, Deepak, Mohd Zahid, John Stevan, Sanjeev Soni, Ajay Kumar, Amit Mahajan, Gyan Pratap Sharma were acquitted by Additional Sessions Judge Pratibha Rani, noting that the victims claimed that they had never made any complaints against them. The court said

The trial, however, will be conducted in-camera after the court accepted the defence's plea. Additional sessions judge accepted defence advocate Shrikant Shivde's application seeking the court to conduct the trial in-camera without media's presence. Shivde had also filed an application