80 Percent Of Indians Jailed In UAE Don't Want To Be Repatriated

Bangalore: Almost 80 percent of Indian prisoners in the UAE are eligible for relocation to Indian jails but only 10 percent wish to serve the remainder of their sentence back home, citing reasons like better facilities.

Indian Ambassador to the UAE T P Seetharam said under the Transfer of Sentenced Persons Agreement signed between India and the UAE in November 2011, almost 80 per cent of Indian prisoners are eligible for relocation to Indian jails.

"We have received about 120 applications from prisoners expressing their interest to be transferred to Indian jails," Seetharam said after visiting a central prison in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.

This constitutes only about 10 per cent of the total number of Indian prisoners in the UAE, he told Khaleej Times.

Majority of prisoners preferred to stay back in the UAE due to the better facilities and because they had not revealed about their sentences to people back home.

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