Transfer Petition

On 15 January 1994 a 19 year old pharmacy student in Gulbarga, Karnataka, left home for college. His exam was 15 days away. He never reached college. He came home 23 years later. His name is Nisar-ud-din Ahmad. A police team from Hyderabad picked him up near his house. Karnataka Police were not told. For six weeks his family did not know where he was. He was accused in the train blasts of December 1993 at Kota, Hyderabad, Surat, Kanpur and Mumbai. The main evidence against him was a confession he gave in police custody. Police used the anti terror law TADA to make it count in court. He was sentenced to life. His father, Noor-ud-din Ahmad, spent everything he had fighting for his son. He died in 2006. On 11 May 2016 the Supreme Court set aside his conviction and ordered his release. He walked out of Jaipur jail at 43. He said, "After 23 years in jail, I am free. But what you see now is a living corpse."