Ab Alabama police officer who had been accused of assaulting an elderly Indian man has been acquitted by a US judge on Thursday. The sentence carried a punishment of 10-years in prison.

Sureshbhai Patel, a 58-year-old grandfather was assaulted by the cop while he was walking on the sidewalk outside his son’s home in the Huntsville city of Madison county, leaving him hospitalised with a fused vertebrae anda paralysed left leg.