Anticipatory bail plea maintainable even for NDPS offences in UP

HC GRANTS ANTICIPATORY BAIL TO ACCUSED IN NDPS ACT CASE

- Pawan Dixit

LUCKNOW: The court of the special judge SC/ST Act on Monday awarded a seven-year and six-month prison term to a woman for lodging a fake FIR of gang rape against two men.

Imposing a fine of Rs 2.1 lakh on the woman, aged around 24 years, the court directed the state government to recover Rs 2 lakh compensation that was given to the woman after the gang rape FIR was lodged in June 2021.

This was the first installment of the Rs 8 lakh total compensation which is awarded to a Scheduled Caste victim of gang rape.

The court also suggested several measures to the state government to ensure such cases of fake FIRs are not repeated.

"Instances of lodging fake FIRs by misusing the special sections of the SC/ST Act are increasing," the court said in the order.

Both the victims, Rajesh Kumar and Bhupendra Kumar Vishwakarma, had to spend three months in jail. During the course of the trial, Vishwakarma died.

Additional district judge Vivekanand Saran Tripathi, who is also special judge SC/ST Act, passed the order on Monday.

Government advocate Arvind Kumar Mishra represented the state government in court.