Andhra Pradesh man booked for travelling to banned Yemen

U Sudhakar Reddy / TNN / Updated: Aug 31, 2022, 04:22 IST

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A migrant worker from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh has been booked for travelling and working in war-torn Yemen. India has banned travel to the Arab country since 2017. Sources told TOI that many men from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana travel to Yemen and take up employment in dangerous conditions in the Arab country. The travel ban was imposed after terrorists abducted, Father Tom Uzhunnalil, a Kerala priest, from Aden in 2016, reports U Sudhakar Reddy. RGI airport police have booked a case against the AP worker, who went to Yemen and worked in a cement factory for two-and-half years and returned to Hyderabad via Dubai recently.

Andhra Pradesh man booked for travelling to banned Yemen

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HYDERABAD: A migrant worker from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh has been booked for travelling and working in war-torn Yemen. India has banned travel to the Arab country since 2017.
Sources told TOI that many men from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana travel to Yemen and take up employment in dangerous conditions in the Arab country. The travel ban was imposed after terrorists abducted, Father Tom Uzhunnalil, a Kerala priest, from Aden in 2016.
RGI airport police have booked a case against the AP worker, who went to Yemen and worked in a cement factory for two-and-half years and returned to Hyderabad via Dubai recently.
On August 10, immigration officials at the RGI Airport had lodged a complaint against Rajeshwar Kumar Dutt Kurmoju. During a preliminary check of travel documents, they found a Yemen sticker visa on his passport. Kurmoju had travelled to the banned country from Dubai and returned in August, 2022.
Based on the complaint, the RGI Airport police booked him under Section 188 (for disobeying orders of a public servant) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 12 of the Indian Passport Act.

About the Author

U Sudhakar Reddy

Sudhakar Reddy Udumula is the Editor (Investigation) at the Times of India, Hyderabad. Following the trail of migration and drought across the rustic landscape of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Sudhakar reported extensively on government apathy, divisive politics, systemic gender discrimination, agrarian crisis and the will to survive great odds. His curiosity for peeking behind the curtain triumphed over the criminal agenda of many scamsters in the highest political and corporate circles, making way for breaking stories such as Panama Papers Scam, Telgi Stamp Paper Scam, and many others. His versatility in reporting extended to red corridors of left-wing extremism where the lives of security forces and the locals in Maoist-affected areas were key points of investigation. His knack for detail provided crucial evidence of involvement from overseas in terrorist bombings in Hyderabad.

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