year-old mentally unstable Indian expatriate who was missing from July 4 has been found in Dammam Jail 91 with a case of mistaken identity. The police have identified him as Chimparthi Fakruv Ali. His cousin Nizam claims the man is Hussain Basha. The Indian embassy can only cooperate as per police records. In July, Asif Hussain, a system analyst in Atheeb Intergraph Saudi Company in Riyadh, posted in an online forum his friend, Hussain Basha had gone missing. Saudi Gazette found out that Basha was scheduled to arrive in Dammam by bus on July 4 to meet Asif in Riyadh. Asif said Basha wanted to go back to India from there, but he never reached Riyadh. Days passed by with no news of his whereabouts. In their search for Basha, several of his friends in Dammam, including Nizam, contacted Basha's family in India to find out if he had arrived there. Asif said he was not sure who to contact. “I don't know how to approach the police,” said a worried Asif in a telephone conversation with Saudi Gazette. Nearly 20 days had passed with no news of Basha's whereabouts. It was then discovered that Basha was being held at a Dammam jail. A prison inmate got Basha's home number in India and called to inform them of Basha's whereabouts. After getting the news from India, Nizam went to the jail to find his missing brother. When he asked the police for details about Basha, they questioned him on where he got his information, Asif said. “The police must have caught him because of his mental condition,” he said. Nizam was asked to get Basha's sponsor. Basha's condition had deteriorated to the degree he could not recognize his own cousin Nizam. “The (psychological disorder) happened before, several years ago, while he was a student. But he has not had any problems for the last five or six years. He is even happily married,” Asif said. “We noticed similar symptoms last month, but before we could do something he went missing,” he said. “Now he is extremely unstable, we do not know how this happened.” Through the regular visits made by the Community Welfare Wing, the Indian embassy was informed by the deportation center in Dammam about Basha's imprisonment. The CWW visits prisons regularly to help Indian prisoners. The embassy received Basha's photo holding the name-card - Chimparthi Fakruv Ali - from the deportation center. According to their procedures the embassy checks their databases for any passport numbers in order to issue an Emergency Certificate (EC) for immediate deportation. In the meantime, Nizam was trying to get Basha's sponsor from Riyadh to meet with Dammam police. “You know it is not easy to convince sponsors, he is asking us to have him transferred to a Riyadh jail,” Asif said. Finally the sponsor sent a representative to Dammam. Nizam went to the embassy with his cousin's passport photocopy. “We cannot issue an EC based on the passport photo photocopy,” said V. K. Sharma, attache to the CWW at the Indian embassy. “And even if we do, the jail authorities won't accept it for deportation because they have a different name in their records.” Sharma said the photo in the passport photocopy Nizam brought resembled the photo jail authorities gave him. Indian embassy officials cannot help despite the resemblance of the two photos. An EC can only be issued with information from the deportation center's records, Sharma said. “If someone can convince the authorities and get us a new photo with his name changed then we can issue another EC on the same day itself,” Sharma said. “We have seen him in one of our visits and we took his thumb impressions, he is so unstable that he cannot verify his own name.” Dammam police spokesperson was not available for comment. An official from the CWW will take the EC on Fakhruv Ali's today, if it is accepted he will be sent back. “They have located his (sponsor),” Sharma said. “If they wait for the (sponsor) then it might get delayed.” “We really do not care if he is deported by some other name,” Asif said. “We just want him to go home as early as possible and Nizam is ready to accompany him.” __
