The Couple Acquitted in 2019 Qatar Drug Case Returns Home

  • | Thursday | 15th April, 2021

A Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) official said the couple landed at the Mumbai airport at 2.30 am. 

A Mumbai couple Oniba and Sharique Qureshi was sentenced to jail for 10 years returned to the city with their daughter.  The investigation came with the fact that a family member had kept narcotics in their bag in their absence and had no knowledge about it and therefore the couple was released with the charges imposed on them.

A Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) official said the couple landed at the Mumbai airport at 2.30 am.

The couple was arrested at Hamad International Airport in July 2019 after Qatari authorities recovered 4.1 kg of hashish in their bag. It later came to light that Sharique`s aunt, Tabassum Qureshi, had used them to transport the drugs. The trip had been sponsored by Tabassum, the official said.

At that time, while Sharique was employed with a Japanese company, Oniba had just learned that she was pregnant. She delivered a girl, Aayat, in jail last February. The couple`s family members approached the Indian Government, asking it to intervene in the matter.

Following this, the anti-drugs probe agency got in touch with the authorities in Qatar and the family challenged the lower court order convicting the couple. Eventually, the couple was cleared of all charges.

 


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