Families of youths jailed in Kuwait demand their release

Family members of the nine Indian youths jailed in Kuwait in connection with the alleged murder of two Egyptian workers today demanded their immidiate release and sought Central government's intervention in the matter.
They said the death of their kin's co-workers was natural and neither the Indian Embassy in Kuwait nor the Central government had done anything for their release.
"Even the Punjab government has miserably failed to put pressure on the Union government for taking up the matter with their Kuwait counterpart," they rued.
The family members said that Indian workers of Kuwait- based Ahmadiya Construction Company had a brawl on August 26 with their two Egyptian co-workers who later died.

"Several Indians were held by Kuwait police but majority of them were released later after it turned out that the co-workers had died natural death," they said.
Nine of the arrested were still languishing in jail, they added.