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‘India doesn’t spend even Rs 100/day on a prisoner’
Updated On: 09 October, 2022 12:07 PM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon
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Girgaum residents Ashwin Parikh, 90, and his wife Vimla, 85, who were incarcerated for allegedly sexually assaulting a three-year-old neighbour, were released on April 11 from Yerawada Central Jail in Pune. The couple’s daughter says during their time in prison, they avoided using the common toilet due to its unhygienic conditions and having to wait in long queues, which affected their health. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar
Mane aiyathi kaadho,” is the repeated request that relatives of Ashwin Parikh and his wife Vimla remember from the time they would make a visit to Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail and Byculla Women’s Jail respectively, where the two were lodged.
Girgaum residents, Ashwin, 90, and Vimla, 85, were convicted on March 11, 2021 by a special court and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for allegedly sexually assaulting a three-year-old neighbour in 2013. On April 8, 2021, the Bombay High Court released the couple on bail, after the court found inconsistency in the statements of the complainant, other witnesses and basis the evidence produced. The couple, who continue to claim that this was a conspiracy to usurp their south Mumbai home, was released on April 11 from Yerawada Central Jail in Pune, where they were shifted from Mumbai, said Advocate Dinesh Tiwari, who got them out on bail.
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