A 43-year-old man from Lalitpur, 'wrongly convicted' in a rape case, has finally been acquitted by the Allahabad High Court after spending 20 years in jail. The man has been lodged in the Agra jail since the past two decades after being convicted on rape charges under IPC and the SC/ST Act.

During this period, his parents and two brothers died but he was not allowed to even attend their last rites. A Division Bench of the high court finally announced his acquittal on Wednesday. According to reports, a Dalit woman of Lalitpur district, in September 2000, had accused Vishnu Tiwari, then 23 years old, of raping her.