A middle aged farmer impersonated his brother in law to serve his life sentence for murder, according to Indian prison officials.
Kiran Singh, a small farmer from Saharanpur district in Uttar Pradesh, had served 18 months of his brother-in-law Raj Kumar's jail term when a cellmate betrayed them to the prison authorities.
Singh confessed that Kumar, his wife's brother, had persuaded him to take his place because he needed to look after his five unmarried sisters. He had promised he would appeal to country's Supreme Court and he would be released within weeks.
Raj Kumar, an electrical contractor, was convicted with his friend Faisal for the 1993 murder of a labourer in a gunfight with a rival firm. They were released on bail pending an appeal but were ordered to surrender last year after the appeal was finally dismissed. But instead of handing himself in, Kumar persuaded Kiran Singh to go in his place and to have Kumar's name tattooed on his arm to convince the police. Full story...
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Kiran Singh, a small farmer from Saharanpur district in Uttar Pradesh, had served 18 months of his brother-in-law Raj Kumar's jail term when a cellmate betrayed them to the prison authorities.
Singh confessed that Kumar, his wife's brother, had persuaded him to take his place because he needed to look after his five unmarried sisters. He had promised he would appeal to country's Supreme Court and he would be released within weeks.
Raj Kumar, an electrical contractor, was convicted with his friend Faisal for the 1993 murder of a labourer in a gunfight with a rival firm. They were released on bail pending an appeal but were ordered to surrender last year after the appeal was finally dismissed. But instead of handing himself in, Kumar persuaded Kiran Singh to go in his place and to have Kumar's name tattooed on his arm to convince the police. Full story...
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