August 13, 2026 05:07 pm (IST)
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Studying from Kota jail, murder convict's son cracks IIT
Kota, June 28 (IBNS): In a heartening story, a boy named Piyush Goyal studied hard while living in an open jail in Rajasthan's Kota city and ranked 453 in the engineering entrance exams.
Goyal has made it to an IIT college with preparations made inside an open jail where his father Phool Chand Goyal is serving as a murder convict.
Phool Chand's resources are very limited and so he could not afford to let his son stay in a hostel in the city.
Phool Chand is close to finishing his 14-year jail sentence.
He is allowed to live in an open jail, a correctional facility where he can go out of the campus for work, but has to be back in his cell by evening.
His son has been living with him for the last two years.
According to both father and son, the authorities helped the boy by boosting up his spirit.
However, Piyush did not have much books to help him and to add up to his troubles, the lights in the 8X8 feet cell would go off by 11 PM.
Though his father could not afford a hostel from his salary, which is Rs.12,000 per month, but Phool Chand regularly sent his son to Vibrant coaching institute.
Encouraged by Piyush's success, the jail administration reportedly said it hoped to increase facilities for the inmates.
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