5 Indians stranded in Iran have sent a video message to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In this, they appealed to the Prime Minister to bring them back to their homeland. These people allege that after being implicated in a false case, they were kept in jail for 400 days. Even after their release, their passports and identification documents were not returned. In such a situation, their life is in danger.
Mumbai's Ankit Yenpure (28) and M Varlikar (26), Patna's Pranav Tiwari (21), Delhi's Naveen Singh and Chennai's Tamih Selvan (31) went to Iran in 2019 to join the merchant navy. When they sailed from Oman in February 2020, they were unknowingly caught in a maritime drugs racket. After that, they were arrested and sent to jail. After being acquitted, they were released 18 months ago, but still, all of them are stuck in difficult conditions there.
The families of all these have written letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Ministry of External Affairs, but till now no help has been received. Ankit's father said that the dreams of these children were ruined, they were kept in jail. They are kept away from families in India.
Ankit told in the video message, 'We are making this video for our return to our country. This video is being made from Chabahar, Iran, where India did a $ 200 million port project. We are stuck here for the last 400 days. We were implicated in a false case. We got caught in this false case because of our agent. Despite our innocence, we were imprisoned for 400 days. We were released on 9 March 2021. We were not corrupt, nor we did anything wrong. Even here they retained the name of Hindustan.
Ankit has told the Prime Minister, 'Even after being released, the Iranian authorities did not give us passports or any identification documents. We have become like animals. We don't have money. We asked people for help for communication, then we got it. Our lives are in danger. Anything can happen to us.'
"After we were released, the Iranian authorities neither provided any documents nor gave any information to the Indian Embassy. If we don't have documents, we can't even do any work to deposit money. Indian agents trap children like us and send them to Iran. Request you to take strict action against them too.
In this video message, Indians have appealed with folded hands that please get us back to our homeland. They said – Our condition is very bad here. And it is getting worsen day by day. Modi ji, please get us back to our homeland by contacting the government of Iran or speaking to the Indian Embassy in Tehran. We request you with folded hands to get returned to our country. Jai Hind, Thanks.
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