Compensation sought for wrongful confinement

Civil rights groups here have raised the issue of wrongful confinement of Lucknow resident Shahbaz Ahmad, who after spending over 12 years in jail, was acquitted in eight cases related to the Jaipur bomb blasts of 2008, but was rearrested in a ninth case in the same matter. The Rajasthan High Court had released Mr. Ahmad on bail last week. The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has demanded payment of ₹1 crore as compensation to Mr. Ahmad, 48, for the loss of 12 years of his life and strict action against the police officers who had falsely implicated him in a “concocted case”. PUCL said Mr. Ahmad and his family had undergone an ordeal.