Story highlights Police: All 8 acquitted in the case are being held on other allegations

10 were arrested last fall for the 2012 attack on teen activist Malala Yousafzai

2 have been convicted and sentenced to life in prison

(CNN) A Pakistani court has sentenced two people to life in prison and acquitted eight others for the 2012 attack on future Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Malala Yousafzai, police disclosed Friday.

Media reports from late April, including one from CNN citing Pakistani antiterrorism judge Mohammad Amin Kundi , indicated all 10 people arrested in the case had been convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

But authorities now say that was not the case.

Rather an antiterrorism court concluded "not enough evidence was produced" to convict eight individuals charged in the case, "whereas proof was provided (for) the two convicted," according to Saleem Khan Marwat -- a police officer in the Pakistani district of Swat whose office got a copy of the verdict

Azam Kham, a police deputy inspector general in Pakistan's Malakand region that includes Swat, confirmed the court's decision, including that there wasn't sufficient evidence to convict those acquitted.

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