Two held for creating fake Aadhaar card, social media account to frame man in rape case
Thane (PTI): Two persons have been arrested for allegedly hatching a conspiracy and framing a Lucknow resident in a false rape case, a Thane police official said on Friday.
On December 30, one Abhishek Singh was booked in a rape case on the complaint of a woman, but a probe found he was in Uttar Pradesh at the time, the Badlapur East police station official said.
"We probed further and found that one Sunny Chouhan and his associates had hatched a conspiracy to implicate Singh. The two are known to each other. Chouhan sent his associate Pratamesh Yadav to Singh's Lucknow home, created a fake social media account to chat with the woman complainant as part of the conspiracy," he said.
"Chouhan got another person, identified as Bhavesh Totlani, to go to a hotel with a fake Aadhaar card that identified him as Singh. The woman arrived at the lodge and later lodged a false rape case against Singh. Chouhan and Yadav have been arrested, while the woman and Totlani are at large," he said.
They have been charged under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Information Technology for forgery, conspiracy, giving false information to government servant and other offences, the official added.
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Assam to lift all cases against Koch Rajbongshis in Foreigners' Tribunals: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
Guwahati, Apr 4 (PTI): The Assam cabinet has decided to lift all cases pending against people from the Koch Rajbongshi community in the Foreigners' Tribunals, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Friday.
They will also no longer carry the tag of 'D' or doubtful voters, he said.
''There are 28,000 cases pending in different Foreigners' Tribunals in the state against people of the community. The cabinet has taken a historic decision of lifting the cases with immediate effect,'' Sarma said at a press conference here after the cabinet meeting.
The government believes that the Koch Rajbongshis are an indigenous community of the state and they are an inextricable part of ''our social and cultural fabric'', he asserted.
The people of this community are poor and have suffered a lot over the years, he said.
''They will no longer carry the tag of foreigners or ‘D’ voters,'' the CM said.
Foreigners Tribunals are quasi-judicial bodies, particularly in Assam, established to determine if a person residing in India is a "foreigner" as defined by the Foreigners Act of 1946, based on the Foreigners (Tribunals) Order of 1964.
These tribunals are designed to address matters related to citizenship and the presence of “foreigners” in India, specifically focusing on cases where someone is suspected of being an illegal immigrant.
There are 100 Foreigners’ Tribunals across Assam.
The Koch Rajbongshis have a sizeable presence in Assam, West Bengal, Meghalaya, and parts of Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan, and they demand Scheduled Tribe status.
