Overview

• Ameena Begum, 24, has been held since May 18 after Dubai airport authorities found illegal drugs in a bag she was carrying upon arrival.
• On July 27, her mother Sultana Begum wrote to External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar asserting her daughter’s innocence and lack of knowledge about the bag’s contents.
• The family has formally requested legal assistance and repatriation support from the Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi and the Consulate in Dubai.
• They are demanding a probe into the local travel agent who arranged Ameena’s beauty parlour job, alleging she was used as an unwitting drug courier.
• Ameena’s five-year-old son has fallen ill and is distraught following his separation from his mother.