Framed, Damned, Acquitted: Dossiers of a ‘Very’ Special Cell

Abstract. The cases reveal deep-seated and systemic malaise in the criminal justice system owing to which fabrication and frame-ups of innocents, identified and targeted mostly on communal basis, has become routine. The cases cited in the report only justify the demand for a National Commission of Enquiry to document and investi- gate the number of such cases across the country. A comprehens…