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Sourced content has been repeatedly removed from this page. The editor in question first commented that it was a "negative comment". That is not sufficient reason to remove it. Wikipedia is not a PR platform for repairing reputations, for whitewashing histories. Editor most recently claimed it was "factually incorrect data" without backing up that claim. Unless a compelling argument can be made this info should remain on the page. duffbeerforme (talk) 23:04, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
After examination of the sources and searching for more, I agree that this should be included. I have reworded it to specify what he was charged with and in relation to what, and corrected the date from 2016 (date of an update to a reference) to January and March 2012. However, I was unable to find anything about the disposition of the case beyond February 2017, when a news article said a stay was still in place. Acharya retired in October 2020 with two government positions. Basanthjain or anyone else positioned to do a better search of the Indian press than I can (useful sources may not be in English), please help us improve this article—and do the right thing for Acharya's reputation—by finding a news reference on what happened with the court case in the meantime. Was he exonerated? Yngvadottir (talk) 09:40, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
All these were politically motivated allegations and nothing is proved in court so far. Cases were quashed in HC. Hence kindly do not malign him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Basanthjain (talk • contribs) 04:01, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
From the history of this page I have identified Basanthjain as the poster of the above unsigned comment, and provided the timestamp. The editor has in the meantime been indefinitely blocked, so I will repeat at their talk page, where they can still edit, the request for sources we can cite. If Acharya was indeed cleared by the "HC" (High Court?), that definitely should be in the article, so the need for a source is all the more urgent. Yngvadottir (talk) 01:40, 10 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Updating here; Basanthjain did not produce a source saying the case had been quashed, so I searched again myself. After several hours, I found a note at the end of a Times of India report from June 2019 explicitly saying that Acharya and another senior IAS officer were not among those charged because the High Court (my hunch was right) quashed the cases filed against them and they were not reinstated. I have added that to the article. (I have also reverted two of the changes Basanthjain made to my first post above. It would have been petty to revert their correction of my typo, but changing others' talk page posts, even as a copyedit, is frowned on here, so let my punctuation stand.) Yngvadottir (talk) 09:25, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
