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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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
