Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)
Udupi, Aug 29: Jyothi, wife of Shankar Poojary (40) from Basrur near Kundapur, lamented that her husband, who had agreed to carry a parcel belonging to someone else to Kuwait was lodged in a jail there since the last three months for no fault of his.
It can be recalled that, Melwin Fernandes from Karkala was also jailed for about in 8 months in 2014 for carrying medicines for a friend. Several individuals and organisations had worked tirelessly for his release.
On Tuesday, deputy commissioner of the district, Priyanka Mary Francis, had invited Jyothi to her office to get details of the case and discuss legal remedies.
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"My husband was working for a Kuwaiti company since the last four years. He had visited his hometown three months back for ten days. When he was returning to Kuwait, at the request of one of his colleagues, he agreed to carry a parcel handed over to him by a person from Udupi. The person had requested my husband to deliver the parcel to the mother-in-law of the sender, who he claimed, has been working there," she explained.
Once Poojary landed in Kuwait, the officials found a parcel containing tablets in his possession. "During his questioning, he told them that he had brought it for being delivered to a woman working in that country. But his colleague who was instrumental in sending the parcel through him told the police that he had nothing to do with the parcel, thus cheating my husband," she said.
Jyothi stated that the memorandums submitted to MPs, Nalin Kumar Kateel and Shobha Karandlaje, union minister, Sushma Swaraj and several people's representatives, explaining about the plight of her husband and seeking their help to get him released, have not evoked any positive response to far. She has requested people in important positions to help her get back her husband.
District superintendent of police, Laxman Nimbargi, Kundapur assistant commissioner, Bhoobalan, president of Human Rights Protection Foundation, Dr Ravindranath Shanbhog, district president of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike, Ansar Ahmed, and several others were present.
The deputy commissioner said that as there is no clarity about the information provided by Jyothi, officials will directly contact Indian embassy at Kuwait to collect full details of the case and on the basis of that information, further action would be initiated.
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