Campus Placement at Tihar Jail
It was a special campus placement session. Eight companies came calling and interviewed 46 candidates. Fourteen were given job offers while the rest hope to make the cut in the next couple of days. What's special about that? Well, the 'campus' was Delhi's Tihar jail and the candidates inmates serving time there.
At the end of the day, what the lucky 14 held in their hands weren't just job letters — they were tickets to a new life of dignity.
"This is not just an appointment letter. It is an assurance of a rehabilitated life in society which would have otherwise maybe shunned me. I can now hope for a speedy acquittal by sending this letter to the court to convince them to acquit me soon. I can assure my wife and children of a decent life in Delhi," said 40-year-old Sandeep Bhatnagar, an undertrial in Tihar for the past five years. Bhatnagar is accused of dressing up as a "human bomb" and conducting a bank robbery in Vikaspuri in May 2006.
Sandeep Bhatnagar, 40, and 23-year-old Gaijoao Mei George, who were lodged in Tihar prisons are now so busy with their jobs that they hardly get time to even socialise. George is working as a research assistant with 'JRA and Associates' while Bhatnagar has joined the 'Agarwal Packers and Movers Ltd' as their marketing executive for the past one and a half month.
