The Karnataka High Court has yesterday asked Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to inform within four weeks about the measures taken to secure the release of a person from Kodagu, who has been languishing in Lahore Central Prison in Pakistan since several years.
Justice A.S. Bopanna passed the interim order on a petition filed last year by P.M. Kushalappa and his wife P.K. Meenakshi, residents of Kaikeri village in Gonikoppal of Kodagu district. The petitioners said that their son, Yashwanth, who was undergoing training as part of a diploma course in Mysuru, went missing on November 29, 2006 and a complaint was lodged at the K.R. Police Station. However, the police filed a ‘B Report’ to the local Court after a year stating that they could not find their son.
