Word: confecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Pyari's family realized that there was not enough evidence to convict Gopal, they hired a brilliant lawyer and ordered him to manufacture the best evidence that money could buy. Then Gopal's family began to confect evidence for the defense. Both families finecombed their tenants and employes, singling out those whose lives depended upon their landlord's bounty, and ruthlessly training them as "witnesses." Others who yearned to stand in well with the British Raj or with the Congress Party were bribed with promises of political preferment. One clerk, who worked in the British magistrate...