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| November 10, 2005 | Thursday | Shawwal 7, 1426 |
India says abduction charge fabricated
NEW DELHI, Nov 9: India on Wednesday denied allegations by the Pakistan High Commission that the son of a staff member was abducted under bizarre circumstances on Tuesday, and described the entire story as fabrication.
A Pakistani diplomat however said the incident appeared to have been prompted by those who were opposed to the peace process between the two countries. Another Pakistani staffer at the Delhi high commission was picked up for questioning after last month’s bomb blast in the Indian capital.
A foreign ministry spokesman gave details of the incident, seeking to cover both versions of the alleged abduction of the teenager Mr Roshan Ali.
“At noon today Pakistan High Commission lodged a protest with this ministry alleging the abduction of Mr Roshan Ali, the son of a staff member of the Pakistan High Commission, Mr Ashgar Ali,” the spokesman said.
According to Pakistan High Commission Mr. Roshan Ali returned to the Mission at 0230 hours in the morning “in a dazed and tramautized state,” the Indian spokesman said.
Pakistan High Commission also informed Chanakyapuri Police Station of the missing boy around midnight and faxed note verbale to the Indian forerign ministry (MEA) at 0321 hrs.
According to the spokesman, the Police Station immediately launched a search for the boy and alerted mobile police vans and made enquiries at hospitals.
“Today the matter was investigated by the police which has discovered that the note in Hindi alleged to have been stuffed in Roshan Ali’s pocket was actually written the same day at NIIT by his colleague, an Indian student Rahul Sharma.”
According to the Indian version, Rahul Sharma has acknowledged that he wrote the note at Roshan Ali’s request and as dictated by him. The spokesman quoted Rahul Sharma as saying that Roshan Ali had wanted to use the note to scare some of his Pakistani friends. Rahul Sharma also stated that he accompanied Roshan Ali from NIIT to the South Extension Part I subway where they parted ways.
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