JAMMU, April 26: A Myanmarese national, Sayeed Hussain, has returned here with his wife and five children in tow within days of being deported to his native country. Ironically, the deportation on February 26 had come seven years after he, wife Noor Begum and their three children had been sentenced to a six-month jail term for having entered India without a valid passport and visa.The family, which is staying in the Bakshi Nagar area, is now running a sugarcane crushing machine at Maheshpura Chowk and has even got four of the children - Yaseen Begum, Mohammad Iqbal, Mohammad Alam and Shah Hussain admitted to a government school.Hussain and his wife, with three children, had been apprehended by the BSF near the International Border in the Kanachak area while crossing over from Pakistan during early 1992. After they had served their jail term, they were handed over to the Kanachak police station for deportation to their native country.The police officials wrote numerous letters to the Myanmar embassy at Delhi but to no avail. The family continued to stay in a room at the police station for seven years. During that period Noor Begum gave birth to two more children. Sayeed earned his livelihood by running a tea-stall outside the police station.This time the couple sneaked into India through the International Border in West Bengal and brought their eldest son, Zakir, who had been left behind in Myanamar seven years ago.Senior police officials are aware of the case but plead helplessness. They say they can arrest the family again but wonder what will happen after they serve a jail term.Hussain claims he had come with his family in 1992 to visit Ajmer Sharif on a valid passport and visa. However, a coolie at the Delhi railway station put them on a Jammu-bound train. Here, they hired a taxi and its driver left them at Kanachak after robbing them of cash and travel documents.They were nabbed by Pakistani rangers when attempting to return and were pushed back into India. The BSF caught them and handed them over to the local police.Hussain said in February this year a police party from Jammu took them to West Bengal and handed them over to the BSF which pushed them into Bangladesh. From there the family went to his native village, Manama, in Myanmar but found the village razed by troops, forcing them to retrace their steps, he said. He claims that all he had to pay for safe passage into Indian territory was Rs 10 per head. Top
