According to sources close to them, for Tariq and his brother Shahrukh Hingora, their one-year stay at the remand home has been enjoyable and memorable.
They are the only two non-Indian kids in the state-run remand home here. They are waiting for the juvenile court to order their re-shifting to the Joint Interrogation Centre (JIC) to join their mother and aunt, who have already been re-shifted there from jail after completing their one-year jail sentence last month.
Hajarabai (their mother) and Sharifabai, who are Pakistani nationals and had come with valid Pakistani passport and visa along with Tariq (16) and Shahrukh (13), were charged with overstaying in Kutch they originally hailed from.
According to sources close to them, for Tariq and his brother Shahrukh Hingora, their one-year stay at the remand home has been enjoyable and memorable, for not only did they get a homely atmosphere there, but learnt many things, including Gujarati.
"I used to visit the remand home whenever the juvenile court met there for conducting juvenile cases, and was astonished to find these two Pakistani kids in jolly mood, learning Gujarati with enthusiasm and mixing with other inmates of the remand home. They never gave an impression that they were away from their real home in Karachi, all alone with no family members around them," AN Pandya, a govt pleader, said.
Tariq can speak and write Gujarati with ease. He had studied up to class VIII in an English-medium school in Karachi when he left for India with his mother, brother and an aunt early last year. The four were, however, rounded up from their erstwhile native village, Nana Vada, in Abadasa taluka in May 2008 for overstaying in India beyond the period of their visa.
Initially, all the four were lodged in the JIC on May 11, 2008, but with initiation of legal proceedings against them, the two women were sent to jail under judicial custody and the kids to the remand home.
Sources said that now since the case was over and the two women have completed their one-year sentence, they, along with their kids, were waiting for their deportation.
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