VELLORE: Six years ago, Anbu Selvi (then aged 20) stepped into the Special Prison for Women, Vellore, for committing a grave offence. On Thursday, she was the prison’s celebrated face as she scored 406 marks in the 10th state exams becoming the top scorer among prisoners in the Vellore region.
It took just three months of intensive study for Selvi, (a life convict in a murder for gain case), to prepare for the exam. She had no schooling until she was imprisoned. Two others in the prison have secured over 390 marks in the board exam.
The three women prisoners were among 28 prisoners from Vellore region that comprises Vellore and Cuddalore to appear for the clas X board exam this year. Eleven prisoners from the Vellore Central Prison for Men and 14 from Cuddalore took the board examinations.
for Women, Vellore,” V Mohammed Haneefa, Deputy Inspector General of Prisons, Vellore region, told Express.
While Selvi obtained 406 marks, the two others - Amala got 402 marks and Muneeswari secured 395 marks. “Selvi was interested in pursuing studies, so we encouraged her. She started to prepare for the SSLC three months before the exams,” R. Rajalakshmi, Superintendent of the Women’s Prison, Vellore said.
N Amala (now 29 years) of Nammakal district, who came second, has also been in the prison for the last six years on charges of murder, while D Muneeswari of Ponneri on the outskirt of Chennai, aged 40 years, is sentenced to 10 years in connection with a murder.
In the Vellore Central Prison for Men, Thangavel was the top scorer, with 391 marks in the exam.
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