A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has acquitted two persons accused in a case of rape of a woman and forcing her for an abortion, while giving them the benefit of doubt.Thane Sessions Judge Dr Rachna R Tehra, in the order pronounced on January 16, said the prosecution failed to prove the charges against the accused persons beyond reasonable doubt,hence they need to be acquitted.A copy of the order was made available on Saturday.The prosecution told the court that one of the accused, aged 47, befriended the victim in 2009 and raped her on several occasions in Bhiwandi and Kalyan towns under the pretext of marrying her.The accused later got married, but still maintained sexual relations with the victim, as a result of which she became pregnant.The accused then asked the victim to abort the foetus. When she refused, he took her to a doctor under some pretext where she was forced to undergo the abortion, the prosecution told the court.A 62-year-old man had assisted the main accused in getting the woman's abortion done, the court was told.