NEW DELHI: (Feb 7) In the 2024 Bollywood thriller “Jigra”, Alia Bhatt plays a woman who risks everything to save her brother from a death sentence abroad. For actor Celina Jaitly, fighting to secure the release of her brother from the United Arab Emirates, that story has spilled on from reel to very real.
Major (Retd) Vikrant Kumar Jaitly has been under “arbitrary detention” in the United Arab Emirates for the last 17 months, said Jaitly. The retired Special Forces officer and former UN peacekeeper was picked up from a mall in September 2024. For nearly nine months, his whereabouts remained unknown with no formal arrest on record and no access to legal representation, she said.
“I got to know around September 29. The call came at around nine at night,” Jaitly told PTI Videos. “I was living in Austria then. At first, I thought my brother was playing a prank. For an hour, I dismissed it as one of his stupid jokes.”
Source: PTI News
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