New Delhi, Dec.7 (ANI): A court in China is to deliver its judgement today on the detention of 22 Indian diamond traders.
The 22 Indian diamond traders, mostly from Surat and Mumbai, have been in a Chinese jail since January, 2010 on the alleged charge of smuggling diamonds into China.
According to a Government of Gujarat release, Chief Minister Narendra Modi had raised the issue with the Chinese leadership, which promised to take up the matter on priority in view of its friendly ties with India and particularly with Gujarat.
Chinese authorities assured Modi that the judgment would be delivered without further delay.
Following Modi's visit, the Chinese leadership allowed Indian envoy Dr. S. Jaishankar and India's Counsel General in Guangzhou Indramani Pandey to meet the 22 detainees.
Earlier, some relatives of detainees had urged Modi to take up this issue with Chinese Government. They had also requested the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court to give a fair, lenient and sympathetic judgment.
The diamond traders, mostly Gujaratis, were arrested by Shenzhen customs officials for allegedly smuggling diamonds from Hong Kong to China on January 8, 2010. henzhen is a major city in China's Guangdong province close to Hong Kong. (ANI)
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