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By Amit Baruah
A Foreign Office spokesman said Mr. Jain's detention had been taken up "strongly'' both in New Delhi and Jakarta by the Indian Charge d'Affaires, Amar Sinha. ``We are hopeful that the matter will be resolved soon,'' the spokesman said adding that the Polaris case was a "commercial dispute'' and should have been handled "commercially.'' Its handling was not in the spirit of traditional, friendly relations between India and Indonesia. In a related development, the Information Technology Minister, Pramod Mahajan, said the External Affairs Minister, Yashwant Sinha, would speak to his Indonesian counterpart in a day or two if the matter was not sorted out. (Sources said that the Indonesian Foreign Minister, Hasan Wirajuda, was out and was expected to return to Jakarta only later tonight). And if necessary, the Jain case would be taken up by the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, with the Indonesian President, Megawati Sukarnoputri. On the basis of information provided by the Indian mission in Jakarta, Mr. Mahajan told presspersons that when Mr. Jain landed in Indonesia to sort out the dispute, $ 65,000 was demanded from him as "termination charges'' for the contract. Mr. Jain, who procured the sum, was not released even after the money was paid. Now, a sum of $10 million was being demanded for his release.
UAE criticised on Anees issue
On the Anees Ibrahim front, the Foreign Office spokesman said that the UAE authorities concerned had gone against their own written communication and ignored international obligations under Interpol and the relevant United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373. Bilateral obligations under the Indo-UAE extradition treaty had also not been taken into account, he said adding that India's Ambassador to the UAE, K. C. Singh, had taken up the issue with the UAE Foreign Office on Sunday. The "official details'' in the case were awaited. Separately, informed sources said that India was currently at the stage of "asking questions'' about how Anees Ibrahim, one of the main accused in the Mumbai blasts case, was spirited away to Pakistan from Dubai. ``We will keep asking questions till we get the answers,'' they said adding that there was no "deadline'' for getting a response in such matters.
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