*Thakrya is among the hundreds of adivasi youths from the tribal parts of Thane* THANE: The three months of hard labour inside the *Karachi Landhi jail*<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Karachi-Landhi-jail>has turned 24-year-old *Jitesh Sinwar Thakrya*<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Jitesh-Sinwar-Thakrya>into a new man. The adivasi from Aswali village in Dahanu taluka of Thane district has vowed to always stick close to his three children and wife, and most certainly never to work on trawlers fishing in international waters.
"Everything was so uncertain and so fearful then. The three months in the Pakistan prison was an eye-opener. Inside the jail, the humiliation and beatings by the authorities was something that we had got used to. The hard labour jobs of digging with a iron rod or pulling out five-feet-long grass with naked hands were assigned to us Indian prisoners. No brief rest is allowed during the job and if we dare stop, the authorites rain blows on us," said Thakrya, who was among the 45 Indian fisherman who were released by Pakistan in May. The lanky adivasi lad, however, is thankful that his ordeal ended in just three months, unlike the 337-odd Indian fisherman from Maharashtar, Gujarat and Daman, who have been holed up inside three specially-constructed barracks for prisoners from across the border for years. Thakrya is among the hundreds of adivasi youths from the tribal parts of Thane who are lured to Porbandar or Veraval ports to work as sailors on privately-owned fishing trawlers, promising them ample food and a monthly salary of Rs 5,000. "Our trawler Akashdeep was sailing inside the Indian territory on January 19, 2013, when suddenly a Pakistan navy's speed boat came rushing towards us. Without any warning the armed men landed inside our trawler and started beating us. They said we had ventured into Pakistan waters when we were very much in our territory. Our chief who was maneuvering the trawler was beaten with a pipe. They ransacked and destroyed the make-shift shelter made for us sailors and pushed us in their vessel. As many as five trawlers with 27 fishermen were taken to the Karachi port," Thakrya said After two days in the jail at the Karachi port, all the 27 Indian prisoners were taken to the Karachi Landhi jail were their ordeal began. "They would make us do all the tough work and one jail official would monitor it. I was made to pull out five-feet long grass with my hands and when I pointed out the blood-soaked hands and asked for a sickle they just refused. During the summer, we were made to dig the earth till noon and if we dared rest the official would hit us," he said. Thakrya and the 27 fisherman arrested along with him were given the release order by a *Karachi court*<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Karachi-court>after their captain one Samji pointed out the harassment and beatings by the jail officials. "He pulled out his shirt and showed the marks on his body and the court immediately ordered our release. We were driven to the Wagah border and from there we reached Baroda where our owner Dileep Jungi gave me my salary of Rs 2,000 and I returned home to my family," Thakrya told TOI. Local BJP MLA Chintaman Vanga said there are thousands of adivasi youths who are locked up in the Pakistan prison and that the government should give a subsistence allowance to their families and post-release the innocent victim should be given a decent rehabilitation package to start a new life. ref ; http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thane/Thane-fisherman-freed-from-Pakistan-jail/articleshow/20641227.cms?intenttarget=no On Thursday, June 20, 2013 8:46:24 PM UTC+5:30, AYUSH Adivasi Yuva Shakti wrote: > Thane fisherman freed from Pakistan jail > http://toi.in/TGvpRb > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This mail is sent you by AYUSHgoogle group AYUSH | adivasi yuva shakti | www.adiyuva.in Group of professionals who want to take initiative to develope tribal community, Let us do it together Our Online contact points : Home Page : www.adiyuva.in Join AYUSH : www.join.adiyuva.in Let us do it together : www.do.adiyuva.in Warli Art | India's Global Art, Proudly Tribal Art : www.warli.in Tribal Tourism : www.tourism.adiyuva.in Face book profile : www.facebook.com/adiyuva Face book page :www.facebook.com/adiyuva1 You Tube : http://youtube.com/adiyuva twitter : http://twitter.com/adiyuva Linked In : www.linkedin.com/in/adiyuva --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AYUSH | adivasi yuva shakti" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adiyuva.
