Govt urged to bring back Indian youth in Pak jail

New Delhi, May 4 (UNI) The plight of Indian youth Ganesh Pandyan detained in a Pakistani jail, today found an echo in the Upper House of Parliament, with the Government urged to bring him back home.

The issue involving the innocent youth from the southern state of Tamil Nadu was raised in the Rajya Sabha by KPK Kumaran of the DMK during the Special Mentions.

Pandyan, who worked as a bonded labourer in Maharashtra, had decided to have no more of it, and boarded a train believing it will transport him to freedom--to his home in Tamil Nadu, little knowing that it will land him in another bondage.

The train took him to the Pakistan city of Rawalpindi, and he was put behind bars as an illegal visitor.

Mr Kumaran said there were a lot of such cases in which innocent Indians land into the prisons of other countries and because of comunication gap, due to a different language, their miseries multiply.

He said the Government took some steps to free Pandyan after he wrote a letter to his family from the jail, but afterwards no progress was made.

The Member urged the Government to take the issue of innocent Indian in foreign jails seriously and come out with a mechanism to get such people freed early.

UNI