( CNN ) -- In a story that could step straight from the pages of a Charles Dickens novel , an Indian son has worked night and day in a garment factory to earn the bail money to get his mother out of jail . This month , after ceaseless work stitching in the textile factory , Kanhaiya Kumari , 19 , raised the 5,000 rupees ( about $ 89 ) needed to pay his mother 's surety . His mother Vijaya Kumari , 48 , was five months pregnant with Kanhaiya when she was arrested in 1993 in connection with the murder of a neighbor in India 's Aligarh district , according to CNN affiliate IBN . Sentenced to life in prison , she denied the charges and in 1994 she was granted bail pending her appeal , but her husband refused to post the Rs5,000 bail money . `` No one from my family or in-laws came to my help , '' she told CNN . Both mother and son remained in Nari Niketan prison in Lucknow , Uttar Pradesh , until Kanhaiya was sent to a juvenile remand home at the age of 6 . `` I was very sad , '' Kanhaiya told CNN . `` Without her , I had no one by me . '' He was released last year after spending seven years separated from his mother and immediately set about getting a job that would pay for his mother 's bail . `` He was out of work and could n't make ends meet , '' said his employer AH Rehman . `` He asked for a job that would provide him with some livelihood , so I got him a job in a ready-made garment shop . '' Some 19 years after his mother was first jailed , Kanhaiya paid the bail money at Allahbad High Court and secured her release . `` I worked very , very hard to get the money for the release of my mother , '' he said . `` I 'm very happy now . '' The case has prompted the High Court to take a closer look at the jails of Uttar Pradesh . The court has demanded a list of bailed inmates still languishing in jail . India 's courts are famously inefficient , with cases backed sometimes for decades . According to the Asian Human Rights Commission , confessions are the bedrock of India 's criminal justice system making it notoriously difficult for courts to secure convictions . The commission estimates the conviction rate for serious crimes is as low as 4 per cent of the cases that come before India 's courts . Indian acid attack victim fights for justice .
An Indian son finally secures the release of his mother who spent 19 years in jail on bail . The 19-year - old worked night and day in a textile factory to raise Rs5000 ( $ 89 ) The mother was sentenced to life in prison for murder but was released on bail pending an appeal . The High Court in Uttar Pradesh is now reviewing other bail cases in the state 's prisons .