A few years before joining Bigg Boss 17, former crime reporter Jigna Vora spoke to Brut about being accused of abetting a murder in 2011.
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00:00I have been labelled as a murderer.
00:02I have been labelled as an underworld lady.
00:04I was crying. I was not knowing what was happening to me.
00:15I am Jigna Vohra, a top ex-crime reporter.
00:19I covered the 26-11 trial of Kassab.
00:23And in the same courtroom, I was on the other side of the law as an accused.
00:30Kassab, India
00:52I had totally collapsed, mentally, physically.
00:55And I was like, I had no clue what is in store, what is inside Lalgate.
01:02I was not aware of it at all.
01:04So the moment I entered that face, that barrack,
01:08some female from the corner just, you know, said,
01:12nahi raha hai, you know.
01:14So that's a very bad language.
01:21You have to literally remove all your clothes
01:24and they used to make you sit and, you know, stand up and sit down,
01:28five times, totally naked.
01:31And above all, I was, yes, you know, going through,
01:35I was having periods, I was on the third day.
01:39And they told, no, no, I requested, no, I am charming,
01:43I cannot now remove my panty.
01:45They told, no, you have to. That's a rule, is a rule.
01:48And I removed it and I was crying.
01:50I was not knowing what is happening to me.
01:55Small, small things started mattering a lot,
01:58like toothpaste, brush, toothbrush, soap,
02:02which outside we don't consider at all.
02:05Jail is basically, you know, a place where your survival is at stake.
02:11Here, while I was out, though now things have changed,
02:15now I am very conscious and aware.
02:17We just, you know, open the tap and water is dropping
02:21and bucket is full and still water is flowing
02:24and we are not bothered about water.
02:27But in jail, I struggled for 20 days to take a,
02:32once I got order from court for a hot water bath.
02:40I'm not talking that we know, we, you know,
02:44we wanted a good cuisine type of international standard.
02:48No, but basically there were times
02:51when vegetables had worms inside it.
02:57I have been labelled as murderer.
02:59I have been labelled as underworld lady.
03:01So how society in general is going to react to me once I am out,
03:06will I able to face that?
03:08Jail is not really a prediction center,
03:10though government and everybody claim jail is recruitment center.
03:14But if you see, once you are inside jail and come out,
03:19you get into that same fence.
03:22Because why?
03:23Because inside jail, women, co-accused, other accused,
03:29other women are not judgmental.
03:31They accept you as you are.
03:33They accept you as a part of them.
03:36But in society, when you are out, people don't accept you.
03:41And hence women are drawn towards that flaw again.
04:12People become judgmental about a person going to prison.
04:17We are labelled as, for what we have gone.
04:21Suppose I was, you know, accused in murder case.
04:26So it is labelled that she is murderer.
04:29Society should accept, everyone should be given second chance.
04:33Whether they have done or they have not done, that's a secondary thing.