Bangalore: A year after being wrongly arrested over terror charges, a former DRDO engineer is running from pillar to post to get his job back. Ejaz Ahmed Mirza, a junior research fellow at the DRDO, was arrested along with ten others in August 2012, on allegations of plotting to kill right wing leaders, including prominent columnists.
"Being in jail is the same as being out of jail. No one is willing to give me a job. I went for interviews with private companies, they all said come back after the cases are over. I'm now hoping that the DRDO will reinstate me. They had said earlier that they would, if I am proven innocent," Mirza said.
Mirza and a journalist friend were released after six months in jail in early 2013, after the NIA dropped their names from the preliminary chargesheet. The DRDO had terminated Mirza's two-year fellowship, and though out of jail, he has not been able to get a job since then.
The final chargesheet filed last week exonerated him completely and he has been running around the courts trying to get documents clearing his name, hoping that he could get his central government job back.
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