Hyderabad, October 22: The Nampally police have informed the matter about the Afghan student’s arrest to the Ministry of External Affairs. The MEA in turn will take it up tith the Afghan embassy.
Zargay Gafoori, a resident of Red Hills, is accused of luring a woman to his house and trying to misbehave with her. He was arrested and remanded to judicial custody on Tuesday. Gafoori came to Hyderabad about three years ago and was pursuing his BA second year from Nizam college.
“The authorities may cancel his student visa and he would be deported immediately.
Another possibility could be that the embassy would issue a show cause notice to him asking him to explain his behaviour.
Anyway, the college would rusticate him,” a police official said.
Sources said that a detailed note has been dispatched to the Branch Secretariat of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) here.
“A group of Gafoori’s friends approached us yesterday with a request to forgive him.
But it is a serious offence and there is nothing we can do,” a police official from Nampally police station said.
On Tuesday, Gafoori lured the woman to his house on the pretext of giving her some study material and misbehaved with her, police said. Gafoori had enrolled himself in an English speaking course at a private institute at Liberty where he came in contact with the 20-year-old house-wife. His friends, all Afghan nationals, used to pool money to pay for his room rent and food expenses. His father expired a few years ago while his mother resides alone in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Coming from a poor financial background, this 19-year-old was sent all the way to Hyderabad because of the troubled state of affairs in Afghanistan.
“We are awaiting a communication from the MEA and accordingly action will be initiated,” a senior police official said.
Foreign nationals ending up behind the bars, for their rash behaviour is not a new phenomenon. A couple of months ago, three Tanzanian nationals, high on alcohol, thrashed a cab driver and subsequently assaulted three police Constables in Punjagutta.
The policemen had a tough time controlling the well-built foreigners who were later given “proper treatment” in the Punjagutta police station. In their case too, the police wrote to the MEA who in turn informed the embassy.
A decision is awaited about the action that is to be initiated against them.
Recently, a Nigerian national, reportedly in an inebriated condition, entered into an argument with an auto driver following a minor road mishap. He is said to have abused the policemen. A case was registered against him in Kushaiguda police station.
Last year, another Nigerian national got ‘angry’ after policemen told him not to smoke within the office of the Special Branch in Purani Haveli, Old city. He allegedly punched the policemen and a case was registered.
–Agencies–