The recent killing of Umesh Pal, the key witness in the 2005 murder of the then newly-elected Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Raju Pal, has brought into focus the sorry state of the witness protection system in India.
A local court in Gujarat's Gandhinagar district on Tuesday sentenced self-styled Godman Asaram Bapu to life imprisonment in a case related to repeated rape of a female disciple at his Ahmedabad-based Ashram