India: Man on hunger strike over compensation for false rape conviction

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'40-year-old Gopal Shetye was acquitted by the Bombay High Court on Thursday. However, there was nothing to rejoice for this man except the consolation of being proved innocent. Shetye is now sitting on hunger strike at the Azad Maidan seeking to meet Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and demanding that seven years of his life be returned during which his world turned upside down.

His release came three months after he had completed his seven year sentence in a rape case. Shetye of Nagpur's Narked had appealed in 2010 after he was convicted by the fast track court in Mumbai's Sewri.

Lawyer Ramesh Majgaonkar said Shetye had twice applied for bail before the Bombay High Court but these were rejected. It was his third bail application that bore fruit.

During the incarceration, Shetye lost his father, his wife remarried (with his consent) and his two little daughters were left in an orphanage. "I want seven years of my life back. I demand justice," said Shetye. The order overturning the conviction reveals how the police tried to frame an innocent.'