Udupi man, arrested in Kuwait for carrying banned medicine, released after 7 months

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January 16, 2019

Udupi, Jan 16: Almost seven months after he was arrested by the Kuwait police on charge of carrying banned medicine, S hankara Poojary, a 40-year-old expatriate worker hailing from Basroor in Kundapur of Udupi district, has finally been released.

Mr. Poojary had migrated to Kuwait in May 2014 to work with a company called Agricultural Food Products Company, K.S.C. He would visit once in two years.

He last came home on April 25, 2018 and stayed for two months. On June 13, he caught a flight from Mumbai to Kuwait. After the immigration clearance, he was allowed to go out of the airport. When he was about to reach his residence, he was arrested by the Kuwait police. Initially, he was detained at the airport before being shifted to Silaibia public jail, where he has remained imprisoned.

On June 14, Mr. Poojary’s wife, Jyoti Poojary, received a call from the jail authorities in Kuwait informing her that her husband had been arrested. On June 28, an official of the Indian embassy in Kuwait informed her that she should arrange for legal assistance for his release. But she was clueless about Mr. Poojary’s offence.

On July 13, Mr. Poojary called his wife from Kuwait and informed her that a packet of medicines given to him by a person named Mubarak from Udupi was the reason for his arrest. Mr. Mubarak had given the packet for delivery to his mother-in-law, Thasleem Fathima, residing in Kuwait, for her personal use. After his arrest, Mr. Poojary called Ms. Fathima thrice and requested help, but not much appeared to have been done.

The Udupi district administration and Karnataka Rakshana Vedike took up his case and convinced Kuwait police that he is innocent.

Also Read: Family of Udupi man languishing in Kuwait jail awaits MEA’s intervention

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sameer
 - 
Wednesday, 16 Jan 2019

This  guy is a farud and nothing else ,mubarak and tasleema name was dragged just to show that this guy is clean,infact he was carry some unknow madecine (abortion medicene whic is banned in kuwait )in large numbers .he has  second wife in kuwait and he was doing some kind of  illegal medice business in kuwait .

Abdullah
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Wednesday, 16 Jan 2019

Thanks to Almight God for this.  Culprit Mubarak should be arrested and forced to compensate Mr. Hankara Poojary for the loss and dipression faced.    People like Mubarak should be considered as offenders and penalised heavily.   I am sorry for the fate faced by Mr. Hankara and pray for his better future.   Mubarak did a great mistake and innocent Mr. Hankara paid for it.   this is really unfortunate and unacceptable.   Mubaraka should b e arrested and forced to compensate Mr. Hankara.   We are with Mr. Hankara.  

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February 16,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 16: Radhakrishnan V Nair embarked on a journey of exploring complex subjects and opening up the cocoon of existence that puts people in a zone of comfort. One sole mission of the book is to encourage the readers to break out of that comfort zone.

The architect by profession has a novel to his credit, 'The Cave of Freedom' that had earned him critical acclaim from Jnanpith Awardee UR Ananthamurthy. On February 13, a discussion and the reading of his book had the audience riveted to their seats.

The launch of the book on February 13 at Bangalore International Centre was presided over by Bhaskar Rao, Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru, along with Vasudev Murthy, Technology Management Consultant, leadership trainer and author and Ramessh RK, an industrial designer and choir singer who read out passages from the book.

'Radhakrishnan is trying to inspire you to discover the pleasure of breaking the glass barrier along with the protagonist Dr Prateek. The story 'burst out'", said Radhakrishnan when it could not be contained any longer.

The glass ceiling saw a lot of interest from the audience present. The book includes Dr Prateek who is obsessed with saving lives in the Emergency Room (ER) as the world slept. Then on an eerie rainy night, he is kidnapped.

He struggles to come to terms with the improbability of waking up somewhere in Europe and making his serendipitous escape and being back at work the next morning - all physically impossible from the point of view of time and locality.

The glass ceiling challenges you to see tragedies and their impact on a person's mental well-being from a different perspective.

Radhakrishnan V Nair is an architect by profession and runs his Bengaluru-based firm - Archaid, the tagline of which is 'Architecture in Collaboration with Nature'.

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May 12,2020

Bengaluru, May 12: The South Western Railway on Tuesday informed that a 'Shramik special train' has left Karnataka for Bihar carrying 1,428 migrants onboard.

The special train carrying migrants to Motihari, Bihar departed from Kabaka Puttur in Karnataka.

Passengers were observing social distancing norms during boarding.

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had recently granted permission for movement of stranded citizens including migrants labourers, workers, students, tourists to return to their native towns.

As per the list provided by the Karnataka government, South Western Railway is arranging special trains. These special trains are being run from point to point with no stoppages en-route.

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