* In 2006, Ramnarayan Gupta alias Lakhan Bhaiya, a small-time criminal, was killed by a team led by one of Mumbai’s most ‘famous’ encounter specialists Pradeep Sharma.
* Seventeen years later, the Bombay high court this month sentenced Sharma and his team to life imprisonment for killing Lakhan Bhaiya in a ‘staged encounter’.
* This is the story of Lakhan Bhaiya’s brother, Ramprasad Gupta, a lawyer, who set aside 17 years of his life to fight a legal battle to secure justice for his widowed sister-in-law and her children.
On November 11, 2006, as soon as he learnt of his brother Ramnarayan Gupta alias Lakhan Bhaiya being picked up by plain-clothed policemen from Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Ramprasad Gupta, a lawyer, knew his brother’s life was in danger.
* Seventeen years later, the Bombay high court this month sentenced Sharma and his team to life imprisonment for killing Lakhan Bhaiya in a ‘staged encounter’.
* This is the story of Lakhan Bhaiya’s brother, Ramprasad Gupta, a lawyer, who set aside 17 years of his life to fight a legal battle to secure justice for his widowed sister-in-law and her children.
On November 11, 2006, as soon as he learnt of his brother Ramnarayan Gupta alias Lakhan Bhaiya being picked up by plain-clothed policemen from Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Ramprasad Gupta, a lawyer, knew his brother’s life was in danger.