UAE prison inmate says Indian jails are ‘hell’
March 18th, 2011 - 1:36 pm ICT by ANIDubai, Mar. 18 (ANI): A 76-year-old prisoner, Vinayak, in jail on drug charges, says he doesn’t want to go to India to serve his remaining term.
His 82-year-old sister, he says, has repeatedly asked the Indian embassy to help him, but he has been told to wait, even as the UAE and India are on the verge of finalising an extradition agreement, reports the Gulf News.
Vinayak is among scores of prisoners who may be given a chance to serve their remaining prison terms back in India, but are wary of going home because they said prisons are like “hell”.
The response to the proposed extradition treaty has been lukewarm, as Indian prisoners in the UAE said they would prefer to serve their jail sentence here and not in Indian even though they would be near their families.
Vinayak is among five prisoners convicted of drug charges by a court in Dubai and serving life terms at Dubai central jail. They have been in jail for 12 years now.
Vinayak told Gulf News: “Here they treat me well. The jail is clean and I am given health care.” (ANI)
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