The joy on the face of a 73-year-old woman was clearly visible when the court of judicial magistrate (First Class) Aniruddha Phatak accepted her application of taking back her son back to Israel from Pune who was arrested in fake passport racket case of 2005.
This is the case of Yosef Ben Shoshan (35) who had come to India in 2004 on tourist visa and later was arrested under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) by Goa police and later acquitted in the case. Later in 2005, a major fake passport forgery case, Yosef landed in trouble as the agent, from whom he had got his visa extended, was arrested and again he was prosecuted for visa violation in Pune. Speaking to dna, Yosef said, “I have seen terrible days as I had to find shelter in a crematorium. I was left with no choice but to beg. I survived only because in Pune people are good.”
Yosef’s mother Doli (75) said, “I am happy and still believe that humanity still exists.” Doli who came to city along with a friend had moved a plaint before magistrate Phatak by her lawyers RK Parmar and Surendra Apune, requesting the court to allow her to take Yosef back to Israel.
Talking to dna, lawyers Parmar and Apune said, “Yosef was a teenager when he was sexually abused by a relative in his hometown and later his father married two women. So Yosef wanted peace of mind for which he came to Pune on a tourist visa in 2003 for two years. In 2004, he was arrested by Goa police in a drug peddling case and later he got acquittal in 2005.”
In 2005, Yosef approached city police for visa extension purpose through an agent and again landed in trouble during a big fake passport case in which many senior officers were involved. After six months of his arrest, he got bail. Later his passport was seized so no hotel in Pune was ready to give him accommodation. He was forced to sleep on pavements and in crematorium. He had to even beg on occasions, they said.
“Three months back, another Israeli national found him begging and sleeping at the Burning Ghat in Koregoan Park. He alerted Yosef’s mother and she came to Pune on Tuesday.” Lawyers Parmar and Apune argued that looking at Yosef’s clean past and the family tragedy, he needed a humane approach.
On this, magistrate Phatak ordered, “The FRO department of Pune police is directed to extradite Yosef to Israel notifying the concerned consulate on terms that he must be present during the trial of the case. The consulate general of Israel embassy is directed to notify Yosef regarding his presence in India to face the trial and FRO to file compliance report.” Assistant public prosecutor filed an application opposing the order, but his plea was rejected.
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