Four persons accused in the Adnan Patrawala murder case were on Monday acquitted by a court, five years after the Mumbai teenager was allegedly kidnapped and killed by his friends.

The sessions court let off the four youths - Sujit Nair, Ayush Bhat, Rajeev Dharaiya and Amit Kausha, all aged between 25 and 31 - for lack of evidence and prosecution's failure to prove the case against them. The fifth, being a juvenile was tried by the Juvenile Justice Board.

On August 19, 2007, Patrawala, son of a businessman at suburban Andheri, was allegedly kidnapped by five of his friends.