Daijiworld Media Network - Kundapur (SP)
Kundapur, Jan 22: Shankar Poojary from Basrur Kalanji in the taluk, who was arrested at Kuwait for travelling there with a parcel containing medicinal tablets having substances banned as per rules prevailing there, has safely returned home. He spent seven months behind the bars before he reached his native place on Monday January 21 morning.
Shankar Poojary had reached Mumbai on Sunday from where he travelled here by train. The family members were waiting when Poojary got down from the train at the railway station here located at Moodlakatte at 6.30 am on Monday. There were tears in everyone's eyes.
In the meanwhile, Shankar's wife, Jyothi, who met with a two-wheeler accident on Saturday, stands hospitalized. Shankar went there and met his wife.
Shankar said that last time when he had visited his village, a person known to him had handed him a parcel with a request to pass it on to a lady named Fatima at Kuwait. He said he did not know that the tablets inside the parcel were banned in Kuwait. During the checking on arrival at Kuwait, he said, he was arrested.
"I was produced in court once every two weeks. With the help of Human Rights Protection Foundation Udupi, various organizations and institutions, and friends, necessary documentary evidences were provided to the court whereupon I was found innocent and released. But I lost my job in Agricultural Food Products, and five years of my service went down the drain. I will stay with my family for now, and will decide about future course including going abroad again later," he explained.