Mumbai techie who was abducted in Sudan for ransom, released

A 32-year-old techie Irfan Jaffrey, who was held hostage for nearly three months by gunmen at Darfur in Sudan for ransom, has been released and is presently with Sudanese authorities, his family said here today.
"I have received a phone call yesterday at about 9.30 PM that my husband has been released. I also spoke to him last night and today. He says he is now in the custody of Sudan authorities," Irfan's wife Nafisa Jaffrey (30), told PTI.
Nafisa stays with her seven-year-old child in Dombivali in the neighbouring Thane district.
Official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs Syed Akbaruddin, has also tweeted, "Confirm that Irfan Jaffery was released and is with Sudanese authorities. Will be in Khartoum tomorrow. R Mission in touch with all."

Irfan, who has been working with Trigyn Technologies Ltd for last five years as an IT engineer, used to visit home twice in a year.
On March 11, a group of five armed men allegedly abducted Irfan from outside a Turkish restaurant. Since then he had been kept hostage in a tribal area of Darfur.

The multi-national IT firm provides services of information and communications technology-related work at United Nations missions across the globe.
In a press release, United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) today stated, "An international contractor working at UNAMID, Mr Irfan Jaffery, abducted in El Fasher, North Darfur, on 11 March, was freed yesterday in Kabkabiya, after 94 days in captivity."

"The contractor, a national of India, was immediately taken to the Mission's hospital in El Fasher for medical check. Mr Jaffery appears to be unharmed and in good health. He will be flown to Khartoum and back to his home country as soon as possible," the release said.