Justice delivered: How Indian agencies pooled resources to help a wronged Indian couple in Qatar
By Anupam Pandey
Amid the complete chaos of politically motivated cases and indictments in India, there still remains the silver lining of judgment, of powerful investigating agencies doing their duties as they should. An example of this came to light recently, when a newly wedded couple unknowingly fell into a drug-mule trap and spent two years in a Qatar jail, before Indian agencies secured their release and also caught the criminals. It is justice delivered, almost like a Bollywood movie script.
It was the great work of the Narcotic Control Bureau (NCP), Mumbai Police, the PMO, the Foreign Ministry and the Indian Embassy in Qatar, who, all together, finally secured the release of the couple.
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.