Mysuru, May 6 -- Mother missing, father jailed for 'murder', yet she triumphs with 84.96 percent in SSLC exam

For two long years, the small tribal household in Basavanahalli, Kushalnagar taluk, lived under a dark cloud of stigma, uncertainty and survival.

Suresh, a daily-wage earner and father of two, had been jailed for allegedly murdering his wife, Mallige. With skeletal remains misidentified and a chargesheet that the Court later termed fabricated, Suresh spent 24 months in prison - an innocent man trapped by a flawed system.

But while Suresh languished in jail, his daughter, J.S. Keerthi, quietly fought a different battle - one against despair, poverty, and abandonment.

Keerthi, a Class 10 student from the local Government High Sc...