KOCHI: The Kerala high court has asked the central government to respond to a petition by a mother seeking the release of her son jailed in UAE, allegedly for spying for India.
Justice PB Suresh Kumar directed the assistant solicitor general to inform the views of the central government after considering during admission hearing a petition (WP-C No. 13353/2021) filed by Shahubanath Beevi of Thiruvananthapuram.
It is alleged by the petitioner that her son, Shihani Meera Sahib Jamal Mohammed, was ditched by Indian embassy officials when caught for spying for them. Consular officer Anup Kumar Shrivastava, military attache Anrup Mukherjee, and first secretary Arun Jain have been named in the petition as the Indian officials who collected information from the petitioner’s son.
He was convicted for spying for the Indian government while working in a firm in Abu Dhabi and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and the federal supreme court there upheld the conviction, as per the plea.
The petition also mentions media reports of several Indians currently undergoing imprisonment in various UAE jails after being convicted for spying for Indian intelligence agencies. Indian agencies entice Indians employed in UAE government institutions to get information and when the employees get caught, the Indian officials escape under the cover of diplomatic immunity, without helping those getting caught, it is alleged by the petitioner.
Justice PB Suresh Kumar directed the assistant solicitor general to inform the views of the central government after considering during admission hearing a petition (WP-C No. 13353/2021) filed by Shahubanath Beevi of Thiruvananthapuram.
It is alleged by the petitioner that her son, Shihani Meera Sahib Jamal Mohammed, was ditched by Indian embassy officials when caught for spying for them. Consular officer Anup Kumar Shrivastava, military attache Anrup Mukherjee, and first secretary Arun Jain have been named in the petition as the Indian officials who collected information from the petitioner’s son.
He was convicted for spying for the Indian government while working in a firm in Abu Dhabi and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and the federal supreme court there upheld the conviction, as per the plea.
The petition also mentions media reports of several Indians currently undergoing imprisonment in various UAE jails after being convicted for spying for Indian intelligence agencies. Indian agencies entice Indians employed in UAE government institutions to get information and when the employees get caught, the Indian officials escape under the cover of diplomatic immunity, without helping those getting caught, it is alleged by the petitioner.
