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TopicFalse charges

Topic: false charges

IPS suicide rocks Haryana bureaucracy. Calls to remove accused officers with ‘power to influence probe’

Haryana officers say false FIRs & direct arrests of Dalits or those from weaker backgrounds among them are used by the anti-corruption bureau to show off its successes.

Lucknow lawyer exploited Dalit woman to file 18 fake rape cases. Court handed him a life sentence

Court finds Parmanand Gupta exploited his wife's employee to lodge fabricated rape cases & pocketed the compensation money. Gupta has been given life term.

Woman who falsely accused 12 men of rape & spent month in jail feted by Haryana CM Saini on Women’s Day

Court documents show Jind-based Rekha Dhiman, conferred the Indira Gandhi Award for social work, had filed false police complaints on previous occasions as well.

‘Gayebi mamla’ redux in Bangladesh under Yunus. Extortion, harassment in garb of FIRs over July uprising

Many cases linked to killings during uprising name large number of people, many of whom had nothing to do with the violence. Yunus-led interim govt had earlier admitted to the problem.

‘Extortion racket’ — Punjab & Haryana HC denies bail to woman accused of framing man in rape case

New Delhi: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has rejected the bail application of a woman — who had filed nine cases against different...

James Tooley’s book exposes the barbarism of Indian prisons and justice system

James Tooley is a British professor who was put in an Indian prison for four months on false charges because a colleague in his...

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.