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Kumari was granted bail, but the poor Indian woman couldn't pay the
$180 needed to secure her release, so she sat in jail, forgotten by the
system and everybody else. For 19 long years. But someone remembered
her.
She thought she was going to die in jail, but then one day,
her son who was born while in jail, managed to scrape enough money
working as a seamstress to get her out.
Sanjoy Mujamder reports from Kanpur, India, for the BBC about the state of the Indian justice system in the 21st century: More
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