UP woman gets 3.5 years' jail for false SC/ST Act plaint

LUCKNOW: In a landmark judgement aimed astatine curbing misuse of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, a peculiar SC/ST Court successful Lucknow Thursday convicted a pistillate for making a mendacious constabulary ailment successful Aug 2019, pursuing which an FIR was filed, and sentenced her to 3 years and 6 months of jail.The tribunal besides ruled that nary compensation nether the Act would beryllium granted simply connected the ground of FIR registration. Relief would present beryllium considered lone aft a chargesheet was filed, and a prima facie lawsuit was established successful the matter.Special justice (SC/ST Act) Vivekanand Sharan Tripathi said, "The signifier of lodging mendacious SC/ST cases to get authorities compensation is expanding and indispensable beryllium checked immediately."In a 30-page order, the justice observed filing of an FIR unsocial did not represent a prima facie case. It noted the legislature ne'er intended that nationalist funds collected from taxpayers beryllium fixed arsenic alleviation to those who misuse the instrumentality by filing fabricated cases. The tribunal sentenced the pistillate to six months' elemental imprisonment nether Indian Penal Code Section 182 (giving mendacious accusation to a nationalist servant) and 3 years' nether Section 211 (false complaint of offence made with intent to injure).