The indian who returned alive from the jaws of isis: a tale of abduction and escape
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The plot of this story is as knotty as it gets. Who would you believe- the version of a man who claims to have returned alive from the captivity of ISIS or the Indian government which
counters the former's claims? It all started around in June 2014, when 40 Indian construction workers were abducted by ISIS in Mosul, Iraq. Only one of them returned to India, Harjit
Masih from Punjab, over a month later. But when he returned to his home in Kala Afghana, a village in Gurdaspur district of Punjab, last year, his version of what happened to the other 39
men would horrify many. Now, two years after that fateful day when 40 people were abducted by ISIS, THE QUINT got in touch with Harjit Masih, his family and also the families of some of the
men who still haven't returned home. According to Harjit, the other 39 men with him were shot dead by ISIS days after their abduction, and he somehow managed to flee from their claws.