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Will try our best to release Shankar Poojary from Kuwait jail, says Mubarak

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Udupi: Close on the heels of district Deputy Commissioner’s meeting with Jyothi, the wife of Shankar Poojary who has been put behind bars in Kuwait for carrying banned medicines, Mubarak, son-in-law of Tasleema has said that all efforts are being made to get him released from the Kuwait prison. “We are trying our best to get him released,” he said.

Addressing the media at the Udupi Press Club here on Saturday, September 1, Mubarak said that Shankar and Tasleema knew each other and hence specified to send medicines through Shankar.

Shankar Poojary was detained at the airport in Kuwait and later he was shifted to Silaibia Public Jail, where he has been imprisoned at present. The crime was that Poojary was carrying a stock of banned ‘Ultracet’ medicines that he was supposed to deliver to an acquaintance named Thasleem Fathima, aged 45 years, residing in Kuwait. The pack was given by her son-in-law Mubarak, a resident of Udupi, to Poojary.

“I had purchased the medicines from Radha Medicals on June 10, 2018 and gave the Ultracet tablets along with some sweets to Shankar. I had also given him the medicine’s bills and doctor’s prescription but, he did not take them with him to Kuwait. That is why he was arrested. We did not know that these medicines were banned in Kuwait,” Mubarak said, adding that they found out about his arrest at the airport twenty days later. “We did not intend to put him into trouble,” he said.

He further said that after Jyothi filed a complaint against him with the Kundapur police, he was interrogated.

“Following a suggestion from a friend, I sent the medical bills, doctor’s certificate, and CD of the MRI to MPs Shobha Karandlaje and Nalin Kumar Kateel. They contacted the external affairs ministry as well as the Indian Embassy in Kuwait and sent them the relevant documents,” he said.

“We are doing our best to get Shankar released. Jyothi is falsely stating that we are not doing anything to help her. Ansar Ahmed, District Rakshana Vedike President is also giving false statements to various media about our family without knowing anything. We do not care about these false allegations against us but we will try to get Shankar released from jail,” he said.

Gopal Kalinje and others were present during the press meet.

Will try our best to release Shankar Poojary from Kuwait jail, says Mubarak

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