17 May 2005 :

the Gandheeya Navasakthi Sanghom party urged the Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, to take immediate steps to end the beheading of Indian citizens by the Saudi Arabian authorities on charges of drug trafficking. The Sangham president, Mar George Theckedath, said that during the last few years, some 20 Indian citizens, most of whom were from the Indian state of Kerala, had been beheaded in Saudi Arabia after being charged with taking prohibited drugs into that country.
He said the latest victim, Sayyid Elwy, alias Shah Jahan Atee Barambeel, who was beheaded on February 22, was denied fundamental justice. He was not asked by the trial court or the higher court the crucial question of whether he had placed any drug in his bag or someone else had put it there. In contrast, no citizen of any Western country who was similarly condemned to be beheaded by the Saudi authorities, had actually been executed, the statement said. Dr. Theckedath said a resolution passed by the Sangham urged the Prime Minister to request the Saudi Government to pay compensation to the victims, to take steps to ensure that the baggage of all Indian citizens going to Saudi Arabia was drug-free, and to set up a commission to report on all beheadings since 1990.