When the chief asks why they're sending Chennan to prison, the old man tells him it's because he's learned a lesson. The old man's orders, the chief tells him, are for Chennan's own good. He doesn't want to send his granddaughter to a prison filled with scraggly criminals. He's not worried, he tells the chief, because it'll all be over soon. The chief is worried about his granddaughter, who's been sentenced to prison by her grandfather. He wants to make sure that she's safe, but he can't bring himself to let her go to prison that way. He also wants to protect her from the criminals who murdered her sister