Jailed techie Amit Kumar Mishra creates new prison software :- How engineer convicted in a false dowry case built IT system to help inmates buy food and keep track of their court dates:
While his innovation is being talked about today, the going has been tough for Mishra. His wife committed suicide by taking poison within two years of their marriage. Even before he could recover from the tragedy of losing someone he doted on, his in-laws slapped sections 304 B (dowry death), 498 A (dowry) and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on him.
He and his family were implicated in a false dowry death case, for which he spent 13 months in judicial custody. His ailing parents spent three months in prison.
During his time in jail, Mishra observed several leakages in the prison management system.
"I was taken into custody even before I could make sense of what had happened. With no access to legal remedy for the first three months, I lived in confusion. Eventually, I realised there were several other inmates who barely knew about the current status of their cases. At the same time, I also understood that for prison officials, it was difficult to keep track of hundreds of inmates with no proper mechanism in place," said Mishra.
With the help of Phoenix, kiosks that display the case records of an inmate from his thumb impression have been set up.
"The details include sections under which he has been facing custody, the current status of his case, the next date of hearing in court. For the prison authorities, the system helps them keep track of which inmate has to be sent for hearing and in which court. Possibilities of goof-ups have been significantly narrowed down," Mishra said.
"After Haryana, Arunachal Pradesh is expected to install our software. We are already in talks with Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Assam," he said.
Though Mishra has been trying to leave his past behind, he still wonders why his wife committed suicide. He also has no idea why his in-laws, who treated him like a son, implicated him in a false case.
"I still do not know why my wife took her own life. If my in-laws had lost their daughter, I had also lost my wife. After I got acquitted, I wanted to meet the Investigation Officer in my case. He initially refused to meet me, but eventually did. I asked him if he thought I was guilty. He told me he always knew I was innocent. But the circumstances were not in my favour," Mishra said.
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