‘I kept saying I wasn’t the one’: Man booked under Gangster Act for 17 years over clerical error; acquitted, cops now in dock

Rajveer Singh Yadav, wrongly arrested due to a clerical error under the Gangster Act, has been acquitted after a 17-year legal battle. A Mainpuri court declared him innocent, criticizing police negligence that led to his suffering. Rajveer seeks accountability and compensation for the ordeal that ruined his livelihood and his children’s education.