When his son’s father calls his child on the phone, JP Gupta’s brain starts to sink.
The grim ritual began in January when Amit Gupta, a senior Indian technology officer in Qatar, was detained on charges that haven’t been made public yet.
His family in India claim they also don’t understand what crime he is accused of about three months later.
He only speaks to us for five days [a week], and all he says is,” Dad, I have never done anything wrong,” before going down, according to his father.
Amit Gupta leads Tech Mahindra, an American technology company, in Kuwait and Qatar. He relocated to Doha, the capital of Qatar, for labor in 2013.
His father claimed to have been unprompted when his father claimed he had been “picked up by Qatar position safety department officials from a restaurant close to his office on January 1.”
Amit Gupta’s arrest was not the subject of the BBC’s inquiries, according to Qatar’s inside government.
Tech Mahindra has contacted The BBC for remark.
A company spokesman previously stated that it was in close contact with the family and that it was necessary to support them.
” We are constantly cooperating with authorities in both places and complying with the law.” Our top priority is to ensure the well-being of our partner, the organization said.
More than 138 000 people work for Tech Mahindra, an American software companies and consulting firm, and it has operations in 90 nations, including Qatar.
Amit Gupta’s event has not yet been officially commented by the American government. However, sources close to the country’s foreign government claimed that the case was being carefully followed by the Indian Embassy in Qatar.
According to the sources,” the objective has been in contact with the family, the attorney representing Amit Gupta, and Qatari authorities on a regular basis.” Our ambassador continues to assist in any way in the situation.
Aakanksha Goyal, Amit Gupta’s family, claims that the government should do more to protected her husband’s release.
She claimed in a letter to the office of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that her father was” under tremendous psychological pressure/trauma.”
Our repeated requests to the relevant government in Doha have not yet received a favorable answer, she wrote.
Nothing has happened since then, Ms Goyal told the BBC, but the text was acknowledged on February 18 and made reference to India’s international government.
We’ve requested a conference with S. Jaishankar, the prime minister, and S. Modi. We don’t anticipate something to happen until they act, she said.
Amit Gupta’s families traveled to Doha in February and managed to meet him that with the aid of the Indian Embassy.
He merely hugged and cried when we saw him. He kept saying,” His father said, adding that his son hasn’t been interrogated by Qatari investigators yet.” He continued to say,” He had done nothing wrong.”
He said,” If they have not found anything against him, he should be released.”
In Qatar, hundreds of thousands of Indians reside and work. Since 2022, this is the next major event in which Indians have been detained or detained in Qatar to garner media attention.
Last year, a court in the Gulf country released eight former Indian naval officers who had been sentenced to death. Neither Qatar nor India revealed the charges against the men, who were working for a private firm in Qatar. But media reports said the men were charged with spying for Israel.
Modi’s management has a friendly relationship with Qatar, and the commutation of the death sentences was viewed as a political victory. A high-level group led by Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, visited India in February. The two nations ‘ marriage became more strategic during the visit, elevating their relation to a corporate partnership.
While Ms. Goyal claims she is finding it difficult to respond to questions from their 11 and 4 year old children while Amit Gupta’s anxious family waits eagerly.
My kids keep asking me about their father’s death. My father’s birthday is in April, and he anticipates seeing Amit as usual, she says.