When ‘ISI terrorist’ Mujib Ahmed walked out of the Visakhapatnam central jail as a free man on Independence Day, the family members of the man he killed were shocked.
ASP (Special Intelligence Branch) G Krishna Prasad was killed in a gun battle with suspected ISI terrorists holed up in a house in Toli Chowki on November 29, 1992. Mujib was convicted for killing the officer and his bodyguard in 1997 with an AK-47. He was given a life term. However, seven years later he came out smiling. Krishna Prasad’s wife and two children were surprised that reformation of a self-confessed terrorist could be so swift. “I have nothing to say about it,” said Prasad’s widow G Janaki.
“It was the government’s decisions” She would rather not talk about the wound in her life. “I believe in ‘karma siddhantha’. Whatever has to happen will happen. I’m not afraid for our safety” Janaki had even refused the government job offered to her and gave proper education to her two children a girl and a boy Today she refuses to be distracted by the release of her husband’s killer She would only say, “I was used to my husband going out on dangerous assignments, but I was shocked when he was killed in the shootout. I was shocked when someone told me that the killer has been released.”
Mujib was one of 1,050 prisoners
set free by the Congress government this Independence Day. It was an across-the-board
act of forgiveness: any convict who had served more than seven years of
his term was eligible for remission.