updated: Apr 15 2021, 19:26 ist
It was an emotional homecoming for the Mumbai-based couple, Mohammad Shareeq and Oniba Qureshi, who were held in a drugs case in Qatar around two years ago.
For the parents of Oniba and Shareeq, it was a moment of joy as they also welcomed Aayat, their grand-daughter, who was born in jail in a foreign land.
“I cannot forget these two years,” said Shareeq. We were trapped and entangled in a case with which we had no connection even remotely, he said.
“Life was difficult…I was expecting….emotionally we had broken down,” said Oniba, however, adding that the jail authorities took care of her well during the pregnancy.
: Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 9:52 PM IST
Shareeq and Oniba Qureshi to return to Mumbai on Wednesday after Qatar acquits them of drug charges
SHAREEQ AND ONIBA QURESHI
Mumbai: 21 months after they were arrested and convicted to 10-years imprisonment by a Qatar court for allegedly carrying drugs to the middle-eastern country, Mohammad Shareeq Qureshi and his wife Oniba will finally land in India with a baby born in jail on Wednesday, and will be able to celebrate Ramzan this year with their family.
Mohammad Shareeq and Oniba had gone on a âsecond honeymoonâ to Qatar in July 2019 â a gift from Shareeqâs paternal aunt Tabassum Riyaz Qureshi â when they were arrested at Hamad International Airport in Doha for carrying 4.1 kilograms of hashish in their baggage.
Mohammad Shareeq and his wife Oniba Kauser were arrested in Qatar in 2019.
Mumbai:
Thanks to a father s efforts, an Indian couple was finally able to return home on Wednesday, more than 20-months after they were sentenced to 10-year jail by a court in Qatar on drug trafficking charges.
On July 6, 2019, Mohammad Shareeq and his wife Oniba Kauser Shakeel Ahmed were arrested at Doha s Hamad International Airport by Qatar s drug enforcement agencies.
The couple was cheated by drug traffickers on the pretext of a honeymoon package in India.
The traffickers, after gaining the couple s confidence, had given them a bag containing contraband (drugs), telling them that it contained tobacco.