Lawyer Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Filing False Rape Cases Under SC/ST Act: Lucknow Court
In a landmark judgment, the Special Judge (SC/ST Act) Vivekanand Sharan Tripathi in Lucknow sentenced lawyer Parmanand Gupta to life imprisonment for orchestrating a series of false rape cases using a Dalit woman as a tool to settle personal scores. The court found Gupta guilty under Section 3(2)(v) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, for misusing the Act to falsely implicate individuals. Lawyer used…
