Inmates for a night, techies become first tourists to be ‘locked up’ in Telangana jail

At least eight people four techies, a truck driver, and three others have paid Rs 500 each in the last 20 days to get themselves ‘lodged’ in a cell of the 200-year-old Sangareddy District Central Jail.

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Sangareddy District Central Jail was built by the Nizams in 1796.

If you think spending a night in a jail cell is no one’s idea of an adventure, you may well be wrong. At least eight people — four techies, a truck driver, and three others — have paid Rs 500 each in the last 20 days to get themselves ‘lodged’ in a cell of the 200-year-old Sangareddy District Central Jail in Medak, about 80 km from Hyderabad, since the ‘Feel The Jail’ idea got off the ground recently.

With the jail in Telangana converted into a museum after a new prison complex was constructed nearby, Deputy SP of District Central Jail M Lakshmi Narasimha, also in-charge of the jail museum, floated the novel idea in June. An official said that barring the engineers the others checked in, took selfies and pleaded to be let off before midnight.

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According to Nitish Reddy Parvatham, a techie working in Hyderabad, one of his software engineer friends working in Bengaluru convinced him and another engineer in Hyderabad to get the ‘inmate’ experience two weeks ago.

The trio, batchmates from IIT-Bombay, reached the jail complex Saturday, paid the fee and completed the formalities. “It was quite interesting,” Nitish said, recounting the experience. “The jail staff took away our phones, wallets and everything else we had on us. We were given prison uniforms. We cleaned the cell and settled down.”

The cell in which the tourists are locked up is a single cell in the women’s barracks in the museum jail, which has been spruced up.

Breakfast, Nitish said, was a “forgettable rice and rasam”, after which they were taken back to the cell. “Taken out for lunch again, we interacted with a few prisoners from the main jail… We were given dinner at 6 pm and then locked up again,” Nitish said. “As they have rule that two prisoners cannot be in the same cell, a guard gave us company. We chatted into the night before I went off to sleep.”

T Srikant, a driver, checked in last week , officials said. “But just before midnight he suddenly became distraught and wanted to leave. So we ‘released’ him,’’ Deputy SP Narasimha said.

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