https://www.rediff.com/news/interview/father-frazer-mascarenhas-they-were-dead-although-they-were-walking-out-free/20230209.htm
We had 110 Adivasis who were languishing in jail for nearly five years because it was claimed they were responsible for some blasts. When the time to give the proof came, they had no proof to show.
Then the people are let free, totally exonerated, but their lives are totally shattered.
Not only their lives, but the lives of their families. Their reputations are shattered.
So these 110 Adivasis who came out were not jubilant at all. They came out very cowed down, they didn't think anything good had happened to them by being released because they have lost their lives.
After the Bhima Koregaon case enabled governments to keep people behind bars indefinitely, only on accusations, the same has been applied to hundreds in Delhi, in UP and in other parts of the country. It has just proliferated.
I think political leaders cannot now be believed. This is the age of 'post truth'.