Report sought on TN man’s 1000-km walk for justice

“I have asked for a report from Indian Embassy in Dubai,” Swaraj tweeted on Wednesday. Jagannathan Selvaraj, who hails from Tiruchy, braved traffic, heat, sandstorms and exhaustion as he made his way through the busy highways of Dubai, travelling a distance of 22 kilometre one way from his Sonapur accommodation to attend the labour court proceedings. It is said that Selvaraj began his court journeys after his mother died in Tamil Nadu and he was denied permission to go and attend her funeral. A bus trip from Sonapur to Karama costs a few dirhams, but Selvaraj did not have money to travel by bus and was forced to spend two hours for a one-way trip and another two hours for the return journey after every court hearing. He has been living in a public park in Sonapur for several months. The action comes in the wake of a report about him that appeared in the Khaleej Times.