Indian prisoners remain in jail without tickets to fly home

Dubai, Jan 3 (UNI) Indian prisoners who have been pardoned in November by the UAE government, remained in jail because they do not have tickets to fly back home, community workers say.

A volunteer with such an organisation said at least 12 Indian prisoners, who have been released from Dubai jail, are unable to return home because they cannot afford tickets.

An Indian consulate official said the mission does not have funds to buy tickets for all the released prisoners.

Moreover, most prisoners are not registered with the Indian mission as required under the protectorate of Emigrants rules.

Indian officials want the prisoners to come to the consulate and give an undertaking that the money paid for their ticket will be returned once they arrive in India, the workers said.

The prisoners who are pardoned awaiting repatriation are: Govinder Singh from Delhi, Karri Ravi Veera, Soohing Bumaya, Santhosh Joli and Ulakanda Kumar Atmant from Hyderabad and Shiga Nana Panjisnat, Abdul Kader Ahmed, Abdul Gafoor Bashir, Arvan Kutty Kurup, Abdusammad Mulakkal and Mohammed Moosa Puraykkal from Mumbai.

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