Indian fishermen head back home

Manama : Indian fishermen freed by Qatar after they were held for alleged trespassing will soon go to their families in India.

Arochiam Sahaya Raj (47), Peter Reegan (35), Wenceslas Amalraj (52), Sahaya Vinesh (34), Captain Suresh (34), all natives of Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari district, had been detained in Qatar since September.

They started their journey from Bahrain on August 24 but were captured by the coastguard for trespassing the border.  

The Qatari coastguard captured the vessel carrying them near the periphery of the Northern coastguard territory, after it entered Qatar’s territorial waters. They were jailed in Umm Salal Mohamed municipal limit and were  produced before a court in Doha on September 26. 

Now back in Bahrain  and frustrated by one of the most terrible experiences in their expatriate life, they do not want to continue here. 

Amalraj who recently came to Bahrain was captured on his first working day in the fishing boat says that he is shattered by the experience.

The Overseas Indian Cultural Congress (OICC) Bahrain Chapter   General Secretary Francis Xavier and Vice President Michael Navis handed over flight tickets to the fishermen  yesterday. 

Amalraj, Reegan and Sahaya Raj will be leaving Bahrain today while Sahaya Vinesh left yesterday .