The three Indian nationals who had gone have been “found and released”, said the Iranian Embassy in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The police in Iran had from hostage takers in Varamin in southern Tehran, according to local media reports.
The three men from Punjab, who were offered work and thought that in April, had ended up in Iran instead. Their families had alleged that they were abducted by a network of agents from Pakistan, who demanded a ransom of Rs 18 lakh each.
On May 28, the Indian Embassy in Tehran said it had taken up the matter strongly with the Iranian authorities and requested that the missing men be traced urgently.
The three men were Amritpal Singh from Hoshiarpur, Hushanpreet Singh from Sangrur, and Jaspal Singh from Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar.
All of them were in contact with their families till May 17. Jaspal’s brother Ashok Kumar had said that he was taken to Dubai on April 1 and kept there for a month. When Amritpal and Hushanpreet also arrived in Dubai on April...
