This youth has not let his murder charge come in the way of his pursuit of education.
Setting an example for several under trials and convicts, a 24-year-old youth lodged at the Yerwada prison, had sought temporary bail for a month from the Bombay High Court to appear for his Third Year Bachelor of Arts (TYBA) exams starting April 5. The court on Tuesday allowed his plea.
Ramesh (name changed) has been following this procedure for the previous two years, when he appeared for his First Year and Second Year exams. In his application seeking bail for a month, he stated, “I do not want to neglect my studies and given a chance I would like to pursue education for a better life and career.”
The petition filed through advocate Ashish Sawant states “The applicant intends to seriously continue pursuing his education and as the unfortunate incident relating to his conviction arose out of a quarrel leading to the playing of cricket in the society premise, his academics have been badly affected.”
Parents of Ramesh want to forget the incident and move ahead in life. They have shifted their residence, locality and in a bid to assimilate in the society, have kept their son’s past life under wraps. Speaking to DNA on the phone, the mother said, “We don’t wish to reveal our identity or that of my son, as after many years we feel our life is getting some stability and we would not like to disturb it.”
Ramesh is sentenced to life imprisonment after being charged for murdering a housing society member in 2009 over a petty quarrel about playing cricket in the society premise. After a trial which went on for three years, he was convicted in 2012. His appeal against his conviction is pending for hearing in the High court.
At the time of the incident in 2009, Ramesh was 18 years and four months old, and had just appeared for his HSC exams. When the results were out, he was declared short of passing marks in one subject. However, he did not pursue his studies further then. It was in 2012, when he was released on furlough leave that he filed his HSC examination form. He also applied for bail in the high court but it came to be rejected.
However, this did not dissuade him. He did not lose hope and sought extension of parole leave which was granted to him. While perusing the facts of the case and the reason for extension of parole leave, the court in 2013, converted his petition into a temporary bail plea and granted him the same.
Following this, he cleared his HSC exams and took admission in the First Year Bachelor of Arts course being conducted by the Dr D Y Patil Arts, Commerce, Science College (Pune). Accordingly, he continued to apply for temporary bail in the previous years, which was granted and after appearing for exams he duly returned to the prison.
A division bench of Justice Ranjit More and Justice Shalini Phansalkar Joshi, allowing his application this time as well said, “The applicant is a student. His appeal is pending since 2012. It is not likely that the appeal would be heard within a short time. In these circumstances, we allow the application for release on temporary bail in order to enable him to appear for TYBA (Second Term) examination.”
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