During the trial, prosecution examined 28 witnesses, however seven turned hostile.
Defence lawyer Abdul Wahab Khan had argued that Latif had already faced a trial in the fake passport case in Patiala court of Delhi, which tried the main hijack case, so he could not be tried for the same offence again, as it would be "double jeopardy".
The Mumbai crime branch officials, who arrested Latif, had deposed as the witnesses at the Patiala court trial, he said. The handwriting expert on whom prosecution had relied had no good credentials as he had been facing a bribery case.
In January last year, the court had acquitted three persons including Latif in the case related to the bank robbery, the booty whereof had been allegedly used to finance the hijacking.
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