Tamil Nadu: Jailed for murder, prison inmate scores 470 in boards
A Selvaraj | TNN | Updated: Apr 20, 2019, 10:46 IST
(Representative image)When Thameemum Ansari, a 28-year-old convict serving a 10-year jail term for murder at Puzhal prison, was summoned to the superintendent’s office, he was puzzled. The officer, Senthilkumar, told Ansari that he had cleared the Class XII exams with flying colours.
“A smile spread across his face when I told him about the marks he had secured,” Senthilkumar said. “After he returned to his block, he went to all the cells and shared the news with his prison mates.”
Ansari was among the 41 prison inmates who wrote the Class XII exams held at Puzhal jail. Thirty-five cleared it.
A preventive detainee at Puzhal, Ansari scored 470 out of 600. Another prisoner Thangaraj, jailed at Coimbatore central prison, scored 464. Prakash, jailed in Vellore, secured 452 marks.
Senthilkumar said before he was jailed, Ansari had flunked in science in the Class X examination. He approached prison officials to rewrite the science examination and passed it last year.
Ansari is in Puzhal jail since July 27, 2016. He was given life sentence for murdering his brother-in-law, Karthikeyan, in 2013. The sessions court found Ansari guilty and handed him a life sentence. The Madras high court, however, modified the judgement and reduced the jail term to 10 years.
Thangaraj is also a life convict and has been at the central prison in Coimbatore since 2016. He had cleared the Class X boards.
“A smile spread across his face when I told him about the marks he had secured,” Senthilkumar said. “After he returned to his block, he went to all the cells and shared the news with his prison mates.”
Ansari was among the 41 prison inmates who wrote the Class XII exams held at Puzhal jail. Thirty-five cleared it.
A preventive detainee at Puzhal, Ansari scored 470 out of 600. Another prisoner Thangaraj, jailed at Coimbatore central prison, scored 464. Prakash, jailed in Vellore, secured 452 marks.
Senthilkumar said before he was jailed, Ansari had flunked in science in the Class X examination. He approached prison officials to rewrite the science examination and passed it last year.
Ansari is in Puzhal jail since July 27, 2016. He was given life sentence for murdering his brother-in-law, Karthikeyan, in 2013. The sessions court found Ansari guilty and handed him a life sentence. The Madras high court, however, modified the judgement and reduced the jail term to 10 years.
Thangaraj is also a life convict and has been at the central prison in Coimbatore since 2016. He had cleared the Class X boards.
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