Twelve retired police personnel have been booked in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, 35 years after a CB-CID inquiry found that 12 men were allegedly falsely implicated in a robbery case following a staged police encounter, reported the PTI.

The FIR was registered at Maharajpur police station on a complaint by CB-CID Inspector Sushil Kumar. The case relates to allegations of fabricated evidence, false charges, wrongful confinement and assault, a senior police official said on Tuesday.