This Kashmiri man was jailed for 24 years for a crime he did not commit. Here is the story of Mirza Nisar Hussain from Srinagar.
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00:00After 24 years, I was released from jail.
00:04I was in jail for 24 years.
00:17I tell my mother,
00:24don't say anything.
00:26Let bygones be bygones.
00:30Let bygones be bygones.
01:30I was born in Kashmir. My father passed away and my brother needed me as a helper.
01:47My father used to work in Delhi with a carpet. Then I came here with my brother in 1990.
02:00We crossed the Sonoli border. There were a lot of gypsies.
02:18They put me in a cart and took me to Delhi, Lodhi colony.
02:29They kept me in Lodhi colony for 9 days.
02:34They didn't let me sleep or eat anything for 9 days.
02:40They used to give me a cup of tea or a piece of bread.
02:45They used to beat me up.
02:53They had already made up a story.
02:57They had already filed a case. They had already signed everything.
03:02They presented me in front of the court and the press.
03:08I was remanded for 14 days.
03:32They gave me a life sentence in Rajasthan in 2014.
03:43The case went on from 2014 to 2019 in Rajasthan High Court.
03:49I was in a state of despair in the jail.
03:52Thank God, a Punjabi lady judge came.
03:57She heard my case for 3 days, gave me a week's bail and released me on the 10th day.
04:04I tell my mother, don't say anything.
04:24I can't bear the pain that my family has caused me.
04:37At 2 am, my mother woke up and looked at me like this.
04:51She said, eat this.
05:01This life is more difficult than life in jail.
05:21There are a lot of problems.
05:23There is unemployment.
05:25May God give someone a life of unemployment.
05:27I have realized how difficult life is here.
05:31It is more difficult than life in jail.