LUCKNOW, Nov. 5 -- The court of the special judge (SC/ST Act) on Tuesday awarded 12 years prison term to advocate Parmanand Gupta for lodging a false FIR under the SC/ST Act with the help of his woman associate who belonged to the Schedule Caste category.

Additional district judge Vivekanand Sharan Tripathi, who is special judge SC/ST court, passed the order and sentenced Parmanand Gupta to 12 years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs.45,000.

On August 19 earlier this year, the same court had awarded life sentence to Gupta for lodging a false rape case under the SC/ST Act. Currently, Gupta is lodged in the Lucknow jail. According to government advocate Arvind Mishra, who represented the state government in the court, Gupta...