The physique of a 31-year-old fisherman, who died in a Pakistani jail final month, was handed over to his household in his native village of Nanavada in Gujarat’s Junagadh district, officers mentioned on Monday.
In keeping with the officers, Haribhai Sosa, a resident of Porbandar, had been imprisoned in Karachi for over three years after he was apprehended by Pakistani safety forces in early 2021. He was arrested close to the worldwide maritime border whereas fishing within the Arabian Sea.
In keeping with officers, Sosa died of coronary heart failure on October 25 whereas within the jail in Karachi.
The physique was handed over to the Indian authorities on the Attari border in Punjab and flown to Ahmedabad from the place it was transported to Nanavada village by highway on Sunday evening.
Sosa, together with different fishermen, was intercepted by the Pakistan Marines whereas fishing off the Porbandar coast and brought to Karachi, mentioned Ashish Vaghela, the Fisheries Officer from Porbandar.
“The provisional postmortem report offered by Pakistani authorities confirmed that Sosa died of coronary heart failure,” he mentioned.
Sosa’s sentence was accomplished in July 2021. Nonetheless, he was not launched, regardless of a 2008 bilateral settlement between India and Pakistan stipulating that such convicts ought to be repatriated inside a month of serving their sentence and after their nationality is confirmed, mentioned activist Jatin Desai, who has been working for the welfare of Indian fishermen.
In keeping with Desai, 5 Indian fishermen died in Pakistani custody in 2023, and three have died to this point this 12 months. Over the previous decade, a complete of 26 fishermen have misplaced their lives in Pakistani jails, Desai mentioned. He mentioned 212 fishermen, largely from Gujarat, and a few from Maharashtra and Diu, are at the moment lodged in Pakistani jails.
