25-yr-old Chhattisgarh man is a police witness in 250 cases
Somesh Panigrahi, a 25-year-old Chhattisgarh grocer, is a "stock witness" for the police in 250-300 cases. A stock witness is one who is tutored to tell the court what the police wants him to. Panigrahi gave his first statement in 2013 when he was working as a cameraman, since the police did not have a witness in a gambling case.