-DAWN - National; March 25, 2008

Published March 25, 2008
SUKKUR, March 24: A young man and his mother went to India to visit their relatives but the man was detained for 25 months for possessing Rs100 fake Indian currency which he exchanged in a train in India.

Jamal Qureshi, resident from Rohri, who reached home on Sunday, finds him to be fortunate for having returned alive from an Indian Jail, following his trial in an Indian court. He was booked by Shah Jahan police on Oct 14, 2005, where he had gone along with his mother to meet relatives.

He gave the details of his three-year ordeal in Indian jail to this scribe at his Rohri residence where he was surrounded by jubilant family members, but not the mother who had died in his absence. He was kept unaware of that when he was in the Indian prison.

According to Jamal Qureshi, he went to Shah Jahanpur via Wagha border to meet his relatives along with his mother.

At Attari railway station, a Sikh money changer came to their compartment and exchanged Rs 4,000 in return of Indian currency with Qureshi

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