Court Orders Compensation for Activist's Illegal Arrest
The High Court has ordered the Maharashtra government to pay Rs 2 lakh to activist Arun Ferreira for his illegal arrest. He was arrested in 2007 in multiple cases. After he was acquitted in all of them, he was due to be released from Nagpur prison in September 2011.
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Context: An acquittal means a court found the accused not guilty. Cases like this are part of a wider debate about how long people spend in jail before trials end and what the state owes them when it gets things wrong.
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