Woman moves HC to repatriate son jailed in UAE on charges of spying
The HinduA writ petition has been filed in the Kerala High Court by a woman from Thiruvananthapuram seeking a directive to the Union government to provide her necessary legal, diplomatic, and political support for bringing back her son who has been jailed in United Arab Emirates on the alleged charges of spying for the Indian government. In her petition, Shahubanath Beevi from Thiruvananthapuram said that her son Shihani Meera Sahib Jamal Muhammed has been in Abu Dhabi Central Prison, UAE, since his arrest in 2015 for the alleged offence of spying for the Indian government. Her petition said that the UAE court orders had specifically mentioned the particulars of Indian Embassy officials such as Anup Kumar Shrivastava, Consular Officer, Anrup Mukherjee, Military Attache, and Arun Jain, First Secretary, who had collected information from the petitioner’s son through emails and SMS, she alleged. The Indian intelligence agencies under the cover of Embassy officials enticed poor Indians employed in sensitive UAE government institutions to spying to get various information about the institutions.