Abu Dhabi: A widow from Kerala is seeking help from the Indian Embassy
in Abu Dhabi to prove her son’s innocence after he was jailed for a drug
offence here.
In her petition to the Indian Ambassador, Jancy Manuel, 59, from Cochin, alleged her son K.M. Shiju was trapped when he innocuously agreed to deliver a parcel from Cochin to Abu Dhabi for a friend.
Shiju, who was working as a fabricator in Abu Dhabi since December 2013, had gone to Kerala on emergency leave to attend his father’s funeral on May 31.
He was reportedly arrested and detained by Abu Dhabi Police on June 18 on arrival from Cochin after authorities seized an unspecified amount of heroin from his baggage.
“My brother is not a smuggler. He came home for his father’s funeral. He was trapped,” Shiju’s brother Joshy told XPRESS over phone from Kerala.
“An acquaintance named Amal handed over a parcel to Shiju at the Nedumbassery Airport, requesting him to deliver it to one Saarang in Abu Dhabi. He was told the packet contained two MBA books and two shirts,” said Joshy.
Read news in full 02/07/14 Anjana sankar/Gulf News
In her petition to the Indian Ambassador, Jancy Manuel, 59, from Cochin, alleged her son K.M. Shiju was trapped when he innocuously agreed to deliver a parcel from Cochin to Abu Dhabi for a friend.
Shiju, who was working as a fabricator in Abu Dhabi since December 2013, had gone to Kerala on emergency leave to attend his father’s funeral on May 31.
He was reportedly arrested and detained by Abu Dhabi Police on June 18 on arrival from Cochin after authorities seized an unspecified amount of heroin from his baggage.
“My brother is not a smuggler. He came home for his father’s funeral. He was trapped,” Shiju’s brother Joshy told XPRESS over phone from Kerala.
“An acquaintance named Amal handed over a parcel to Shiju at the Nedumbassery Airport, requesting him to deliver it to one Saarang in Abu Dhabi. He was told the packet contained two MBA books and two shirts,” said Joshy.
Read news in full 02/07/14 Anjana sankar/Gulf News
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