A month and a half after being arrested in Mumbai for carrying bullets in her rucksack, Noa Haviv is
expected to gain back her freedom Monday after an Indian judge instructed authorities to return her passport.
She is expected to return to Israel in the coming days.
Haviv, a 28-year-old from Jerusalem, was arrested upon arrival to India on an El Al plane from Israel. A cartridge loaded with 16 9mm bullets was found in her bag, which belonged to her brother.
Haviv was released about a week later, but her passport was held by local authorities and she was forbidden to leave India. In the meantime she continued to travel throughout the country.
“This is a great feeling,” Noa’s mother Hagit told Ynet. “The most important thing is that the passport is being given back to us, and within two days, following a short bureaucratic procedure, we will be able to return home.
“We feel very relieved; we were so frightened and things appeared so gloomy in the past few days,” she said.
Hagit praised the woman judge, saying “She opened the hearing by saying that Noa should be treated as a tourist and not a criminal.
“We are now with our attorney and I assume we will go celebrate in a few hours,” she said.
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