bacha yadav in this case also ghandi was acquitted and charges against yadav droppedaccording to human rights lawyer jaspal singh manjhpur 47 cases of uapa were registered during sadbjp regime in eight years but convictions took place in only six cases mainly sikh activists were booked its the laws usage increased in the last few years said manjhpur who remained in jail for around a year and half after being booked under uapa on august 27 2009 he was later acquitteduapa was also invoked by nawanshahr police against three sikh men in may 2016 after the seizure of some literature from them the then additional chief secretary home had even given sanction to prosecute them under uapa however a nawanshahrbased court found the sanction for prosecution under uapa invalid howeve it convicted the three men in beginning of 2018 under sections 121 and 121 of ipc for waging or attempting to wage war against government of india and sentenced them to life imprisonment the literature seized from them included a paragraph of a prison letter written by freedom fighter and sikh spiritualist bhai randhir singh in 1926 pictures of 13 sikhs killed in nirankarisikh clash on april 13 1978 in amritsar and a poem by bhai fauja singh who was killed in the same clash