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	The Supreme Court acquitted Banthit Sitthithum, 48, former police officer of the Wang Nam Yen police station, on the benefit of the doubt.</div>
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	He was charged with collaborating with another man to fire RPG rocket at the Defence Ministry on March 20 2010.</div>
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	The court ruled that prosecutors&rsquo; witnesses and surrounding evidences were contradicting and not convincing, so the evidences were not strong enough to convict the suspect.</div>
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	The court did not believe that the four witnesses could see Banthit&rsquo;s face clearly at night when it was dark.</div>
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	Banthit did not turn up to hear the ruling. The Supreme Court on September 9 issued an arrest warrant against Banthit after he failed to turn up to hear the ruling initially scheduled to be read that day.</div>
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	Banthit was convicted by the Criminal Court in the charges but he was acquitted by the Appeals Court on the benefit of the doubt.</div>
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	He was released on bail pending a ruling by the Supreme Court but he later jumped bail and has not been accounted for.</div>
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Supreme Court acquits former Wang Nam Yen police in RPG firing case

The Supreme Court Tuesday acquitted a former police officer from Sakaew's Wang Nam Yen district from charges that he had fired an RPG rocket at the Defence Ministry during red-shirt protests in 2010.