The parents of 37 Punjabi youth have urged the Union Government to get their wards released from a Moroccon jail where they are languishing since 2004. On the direction of the Union Minister of State for External Affairs, Mrs Preneet Kaur, the officials in her ministry had taken up the matter with the Indian High Commission in Morocco on Monday. However, the Commission has confirmed that there is no youth from the group in Morrocon jail.<br/><br/>This has been revealed by the MLA, Bholath, Mr. Sukhpal Singh Khaira in Jalandhar, today where he addressed a press conference along with the parents of these 37 youth. Mr Khaira said that he had met the Minister along with a delegation of parents at Patiala on Monday and apprised her of the whole situation. He said that these boys aged between 18-25 had left Punjab in the year 2004 through a unscrupulous travel agent who had promised them safe passage to Spain in Europe.<br/><br/>Instead of taking them to Spain, the agent took them to Mali in Africa in November 2004. The last call that the parents of Arun Kumar, one of the boys, received was on 24-12-2004 who disclosed that the said agent had promised to take them from Mali to Spain in a boat. Thereafter the parents lost contact with the boys and were reported missing for the last 5 years. However, on December 31, 2009 one of the boys Jaswant Singh called his uncle to tell him that all of them have been duped by the agent and are languishing in a Moroccan jail for the last 5 years without any ray of hope.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, on the notice of Punjab & Haryana High Court, the CBI has issued a Yellow Corner notice and asked the Inetrpol also to look out for the boys. The families of the missing youth have appealed to the President and the Prime Minister to intervene to secure the release of their children.