What was supposed to be an interesting trip to Russia turned out to be an ordeal for a doctor hailing from Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur district after he was allegedly detained by Russian authorities in Sochi in September this year.

Dr K Jagadeeswaran's wife appealed to Central and state governments to intervene and help her in getting her husband extradited back to India safely.

Detailing the ordeal Jagadeeswaran went through in Russia, his wife Yamini told PTI that he was tortured and humiliated in the custody for the reason unknown to them, and his health condition has deteriorated. Though he has been released now from custody he lacked documents required to travel to Moscow so that he can return to India.

She said that Jagadeeswaran got a degree in medicine from an Armenian University in

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