LUCKNOW, Aug. 20 -- The court of special judge SC/ST Act here on Tuesday awarded life sentence to advocate Permanand Gupta for lodging false cases of rape 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. Both Permanand Gupta and his associate Pooja Rawat are already in jail for the past one month.

The court, however, ordered the release of Pooja Rawat as she apprised the court that Gupta misled and used her in lodging fake cases against his neighbour Arvind Yadav and Awadhesh Yadav. Gupta and the Yadav family are residents of Vibhuti Khand in Gomti Nagar.

Permanand Gupta had a pr...