Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)
Udupi, Aug 30: Udupi district administration has been doing everything within its command to bring Shankar Poojary (40) from Basrur near here back to India from Kuwait where he is presently in jail.
Reportedly, Poojary, who was employed in Kuwait and was returning to work after visiting home, was caught by the authorities at the airport in Kuwait with a parcel of tablets containing banned substance three months back. This parcel was being carried by him at the instance of a colleague, it is said, and this colleague escaped by telling the authorities that he has nothing do with this parcel.
Shankar Poojary has been in jail since the last three months. The Udupi district administration has so far not succeeded in getting concrete information about why he was imprisoned there. Deputy commissioner (DC) of the district, Priyanka Mary Francis, invited Poojary's wife, Jyothi, to her office on Wednesday too and collected additional information needed.
At the same time, Human Rights Protection Foundation here too has been putting together details. The foundation too has got in touch with the Indian embassy in Kuwait.
The family had taken up the issue with the ministry of external affairs through the MP in the past, and the ministry has written to Udupi MP Shobha Karandlaje, informing her that Shankar Poojary's case has been registered and that all out efforts are being made to help him.
DC Priyanka Mary Francis said that her office has been in touch with the officials of the external affairs ministry and the Indian embassy at Kuwait relating to the case.
DC said that there have been certain problems as clear information about Shankar Poojary could not be collected. She said that efforts are continuing and hoped that a clearer picture about the case will emerge within a couple of days.
Jyothi said that she and her family now reposes totally on the district administration's promise to make every efforts to bring her husband back home unscathed.