India, Oct. 21 -- Twelve retired police personnel have been booked in Kanpur, 35 years after a CB-CID inquiry found that 12 men were allegedly falsely implicated in a robbery case following a staged police encounter, a senior police official said on Tuesday.

The FIR was registered at Maharajpur police station on a complaint by CB-CID Inspector Sushil Kumar under sections of the erstwhile Indian Penal Code (IPC) about fabrication of evidence, false charges, wrongful confinement and causing hurt.

The case has been registered under IPC sections 194, 195, 182, 211, 218, 220, 323 and 342, Commissioner of Police Raghubir Lal told PTI, adding that the CB-CID would investigate the matter.

The inquiry had named 18 police personnel, including t...