Lucknow, Nov 24: The court of the special judge (SC/ST Act) awarded 12 years prison term to one Advocate for lodging a false FIR under the SC/ST Act and imposed a fine of Rs 45,000 with the help of his woman associate who belonged to the Schedule Caste category.
Now, lodged in Lucknow jail, the accused is already serving life sentence for misusing the SC/ ST Act.
The court has also directed that the period already spent in jail will be set off against the sentence.
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