New Delhi : Death sentence of 15 Indians, lodged in Kuwaiti jails, have been commuted to life imprisonment by the Emir of Kuwait, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday.
Swaraj said the Emir has also directed that the sentences of 119 Indian nationals be reduced.
The minister thanked the Emir of Kuwait for his kind gesture. In a series of tweets, she said “the Emir of Kuwait has been pleased to commute the sentence of 15 Indian nationals from death to life imprisonment”.
Indian mission in Kuwait will provide all possible assistance to the Indian nationals being released from the prison, she tweeted.
However, it was not clear that under what charges these Indians were put behind bars.
Earlier, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan had urged the Ministry of External Affairs to take up the issue of Indian prisoners languishing in jails in Middle East.
Citing the release order of 149 Indian prisoners who are currently lodged in jails in Sharjah, Chief Minister Vijayan in a letter to Swaraj, had requested the MEA to direct the diplomatic missions in UAE and other Middle East countries to seek the release of Indian prisoners in jails of these countries on humanitarian countries.
