IT and Industries Minister K.T. Rama Rao has urged the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government to consider and approve the mercy petition of five NRIs from Rajanna Sircilla district languishing at the Aweer jail in Dubai.
The Minister, who was in Dubai on Wednesday on a business trip, met the UAE government officials to intensify his efforts to get the NRIs repatriated at the earliest. Mr. Rama Rao spoke to the Indian Consul General in Dubai, the Arab lawyer who is handling the case, and other government officials, to inquire about the status of the case and urged for the mercy petition approval.
Five Indian nationals named Shivarathri Mallesh, Shivarathri Ravi, Gollem Nampally, Dundugula Laxman and Shivarathri Hanmanthu are lodged in Dubai prison in connection with the death of a Nepali and they have already completed a sentence of 15 years.
