NEW DELHI: A Malaysian who went to India to experience spiritual life only to be locked up in an Indian jail for almost two years for violating immigration laws, left for home last night.
Lim Soon Seng, who was released on Aug 27, managed to obtain his exit certificate from the Foreigners Regional Registration Office in Delhi to leave India.
The former valuation surveyor from Johor was held under Section 14 of the Foreigners Act, after he failed to renew his visa upon expiry and was detained by in Varanasi, a popular holy site for Hindus and where foreigners often converge.
Lim, in his 50s, arrived in Varanasi in 2001 and stayed on to pursue his spiritual path and learn the Indian system of Vedic treatment.
However, from December 2007 until last August, the Malaysian languished in one of India’s hardcore prisons as he failed to get any outside help.
Lim finally received assistance after a German diplomat who visited the prison met him and informed the Malaysian High Com- mission in Delhi, which eventually helped to expedite Lim’s release.
“I was shattered in prison. All I wanted to do was to heal and help people but I went through some bad karma in India. There were so many legal complications.
“It placed so much stress on my family and me.
“Now I am free and happy to go home and see my sister,” Lim said before his departure on a Malaysia Airlines flight for Kuala Lumpur last night.
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