The man was arrested by the police primarily based on CCTV footage (Representational)
Kannur, Kerala:
Kerala officers, moved by the heartbreaking story of a person who had stolen Rs 600 from a financial institution and escaped from jail, helped the 21-yesr-old migrant employee safe bail and return residence to his household in Uttar Pradesh.
Hunger and love for his mom had prompted the stranded migrant to steal the measly quantity, officers mentioned
Stranded in a dfferent state because of the coronavirus-induced lockdown with no job, Ajay Babu was pressured to beg on the streets for his survival at one level. So, it was a cheerful reunion for him when he reached his village in Uttar Pradesh’s Hamirpur district on Monday afternoon, officers mentioned.
It was made potential because of the collective efforts of some good samaritans within the Kerala jail division, a lawyer from Kasargod district and officers of the authorized providers authority who had been sympathetic to the person’s plight, they mentioned.
He was given Rs 500 and two pairs of attire and accommodated in a Delhi-bound practice on Saturday from Kannur.
“Ajay Babu was received by his relatives at the Jhansi railway station on Monday morning. I also have a video and photos of him joining his mother and other relatives,” Superintendent of Kannur Special Jail TK Janardhanan advised PTI.
Facing hunger, Ajay Babu had entered a financial institution in Kerala’s Kasargod city by its air vents and made away with Rs 600 from the money field. He spent this cash to get meals from a close-by eatery and slept within the space as he didn’t even realise his crime.
He was arrested the very subsequent day primarily based on a CCTV footage and as per COVID-19 protocol on March 25 lodged in an isolation room in Kannur Central Jail from the place he escaped per week later as he badly needed to retrive his cellphone seized by the police in order that he may communicate to his mom, the official mentioned.
He was later discovered mendacity unconscious close to a railway observe by locals and was taken into custody once more. During interrogation, he narrated his ordeals from the time he landed in Kerala in March simply forward of the lockdown on the lookout for a job.
The district jail authorities initiated steps to safe his launch, below the availability of decongesting the jails on account of COVID-19 lockdown, regardless that three of their colleagues had been suspended and a short lived workers was sacked after Ajay Babu escaped from jail.
Hamirpur district police helped hint Ajay Babu’s residence deal with, TK Janardhanan mentioned, including that his household managed to ship Rs 25,000 on-line for the bail bond.
Advocate Kumaran Nair, a famous lawyer from Kasargod district, prolonged free authorized help to Ajay Babu for securing the bail within the financial institution theft case whereas authorized providers authorities helped him get reduction within the jail escape case, availing him the advantage of decongesting prisons on account of COVID-19 lockdown and releasing these going through petty crimes, TK Janardhanan mentioned.
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