In his jail term, youth gets four degrees! Wants to become a lecturer
Prison transforms life of a convicted person
Bengaluru, Jan 22: “The main aim of my life is to educate the youth who have been attracting towards crime very easily, through my articles and lectures”, said Yallappa of Doddaballapura in Bengaluru rural district.
During his life imprisonment in the jail, Yallappa completed two undergraduate degrees and two post graduation degrees, due to his good behavior, he was released from Parappana Agrahara jail on Republic Day last year. Now once again, he is making news not as a convicted, but releasing a book written by him on the same place where he was jailed for more than 14 years.
The life of Yallappa (38) who wrote a book on jail mates who spent time with him in the jail, is itself like a story of a film. Due to poverty, Yallappa could not continue his studies after 7th standard.
Even then, he was a good Kabaddi player. In 2004, he had been to Bhagat Singh stadium to watch a cricket match and clashed with local person Giribabu. When the clash turned violent, Giribabu attacked Yallappa with a sickle.
But taking the same sickle, Yallappa attacked Giribabu in a fit of anger and killed him on the spot. Police arrested him and remanded to judicial custody.
Later, Bengaluru Sessions Court convicted him to life imprisonment. Because of his anger, he had to serve jail term for 14.8 years. Meanwhile, he saw another jail-mate who was BSc drop out, taking an exam in the jail and Yallappa wanted to study.
Since he has just studied till 7th standard, he did not know what to do. Finally, Bengaluru university has allowed him to study BA through distance education and passed graduation in his first attempt.
Later, he studied post graduation in Journalism and Public Administration and thus got two post graduation degrees. After this, with the help of jail authorities he helped other jail-mates to complete education and thus got appreciation from the jail officers.
After this achievement, Yallappa wanted to do Ph.D degree on ‘role of jail officers in transforming the convicted and got the permission from the jail officers and visited 8 central jails including Ballari, Belagavi, Mysuru and Koramangala and stayed there for some time and studied the situation. Now he has presented his Ph.D theses on the same issue and is about get his Ph.D degree.
He is writing another book on real stories of the people who were attracted to criminal field. Since the society and family would treat them as jailed persons, Yallappa has decided not to marry. But he wanted to become a lecturer to educate the youth, he said.
He is writing the real stories of eight persons who were convicted to life imprisonment after involving in murders in a fit of anger. Yallappa who was jailed as a ‘murderer’ has published a 200-page book ‘Jailu Jeevagalu’. He has written the book as a caution to those who enter criminal world without knowing the dangers of life. The main objective of his writings is to educate and warn the youth against criminal field, he said.
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Hit by car, delivery agent dies after falling from flyover in Delhi
New Delhi (PTI): A food delivery agent died after falling from the Dabri flyover in southwest Delhi when his scooter was allegedly hit by a car on Thursday morning, police said.
The car driver fled from the spot, police said.
A PCR call was received at 7:35 am informing that a person had fallen from the Dabri flyover on Pankha road and required immediate medical assistance, they said.
A police team rushed to the spot and found a damaged scooter and a car on the flyover. The scooter rider sustained serious injuries and was immediately shifted to a nearby hospital in an ambulance, where doctors declared him dead, they added.
According to police, the victim was identified as Rajkumar, a resident of Jharkhand's Godda district. He was working as a delivery executive with a private food delivery service in Delhi.
The car involved in the accident bears a Delhi registration number and is registered in the name of a Dabri resident, police said.
"The body has been preserved in a mortuary and efforts are underway to apprehend the absconding driver," a senior police officer said.
A case has been registered under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and an investigation is underway to ascertain the exact sequence of events leading to the accident, police said.
