In a powerful indictment of mechanical criminal prosecution, the Jharkhand High Court has acquitted a woman who spent more than seven years behind bars after being convicted in a 2004 anti-Naxal operation, observing that she appeared to have been prosecuted “only for the reason that she happens to be the wife of an extremist.” Setting…
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