Wife seeks govt help to free husband in Qatar prison

The wife of a construction worker has sought the assistance of the district administration to free her husband who had been jailed in a Qatar prison in connection with a woman murder case.

In her representation to the District Collector, Rajammal, wife of P Selladurai (44) of Sedapatti near here stated that her husband, who had gone to Qatar to work in a construction company five years ago, was arrested by Qatar police on the suspicion of murdering a woman, three months back and was lodged in a prison there.

Selladurai had been convicted and sentenced to death along with two others in connection with the woman murder case, she said.
 

A Qatar court had ordered the execution of the sentence in forty days.

Rajammal said the collector V Rajaraman had assured to look into her grievance and take up the issue legally.