A person who is neither a member of a Scheduled Caste nor a member of a Scheduled Tribe fabricates…
Section 3(2)(i) prescribes life imprisonment and a fine for the specified conduct involving false evidence aimed at securing a capital conviction. Its concluding limb…
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A person who is neither a member of a Scheduled Caste nor a member of a Scheduled Tribe fabricates evidence intending to cause a Scheduled Tribe member to be convicted of a capital offence. The innocent member is convicted and executed because of that evidence. What penalty does the text of section 3(2)(i) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 specify for the fabricator in these circumstances?
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Correct answer A
Section 3(2)(i) prescribes life imprisonment and a fine for the specified conduct involving false evidence aimed at securing a capital conviction. Its concluding limb specifies death if an innocent protected member is convicted and executed as a consequence. The question asks what the section's text specifies.
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Option A
The concluding limb of section 3(2)(i) specifies death when the innocent member is convicted and executed as a consequence.
Option B
Life imprisonment and a fine are prescribed by the earlier limb for the specified false-evidence conduct without the additional execution outcome.
Option C
The statute does not set a fourteen-year maximum for the scenario.
Option D
The statute does not set a twenty-year maximum for the scenario.
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