With our legal system, someone charged with the most terrible of crimes can escape punishment while someone arrested for minor theft can spend a very long time behind bars. It mostly depends on the defendant's financial resources and influence. The law mandates that those who are given a death by hanging sentence by the highest court be put to death within two years of the decision. But, those convicts actually pass away every single day up to the execution day. The sound of the guards' feet trampling through the jail's hallways keeps them awake; it's like the bell of death. One such prisoner, Arjun Chatterji, has spent fourteen years behind bars. Accused of the rape and murder of a fourteen-year-old school girl living in the apartment society where he worked as a security guard, he was the only person to be sentenced for a crime not related to terrorism in the twentieth century. He pled innocence until the moment he was hanged, which sparked off a public debate over how justice is handed out in our country because the evidence presented in court was inconclusive. This is the story of Arjun Chatterji. Both the acts in this novel?the crime and the punishment?are ?inhuman?; they are both ?Amanushik?.