Saturday, Apr 20, 2024 | Last Update : 01:52 AM IST
Man who walked 1,000 km to Dubai court is back home
Sushma Swaraj said the government has helped Jagannathan Selvaraj to return to his village.
New Delhi: An Indian man who had walked 1,000 km over a period of two years to attend court proceedings in Dubai just to obtain a flight ticket to home has been brought back.
External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said the government has helped Jagannathan Selvaraj, who hails from Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, to return to his village.
“We have brought him back to India and sent him to his village. He went up and down to the court 20 times over a year. That made it 1000 km,” Ms Swaraj tweeted.
The external affairs minister, undergoing treatment at AIIMS for kidney failure, last week had sought a report from Indian Consulate in Dubai following media reports about Selvaraj.
A bus trip to the court in Karama area costs a few dirhams, but Selvaraj did not have money to travel by bus and was forced to spend two hours for a one-way trip and another two hours for the return journey after every court hearing, according to reports.
