“My baby I love you so much… my fiancé,” reads Dudu’s wall post on a social networking site, Facebook. Sounds pretty normal as messages go, but what’s special about this one is that it has been uploaded by Israeli drug peddler David Driham, alias, Dudu who is currently behind bars in Goa.
Currently lodged in the Aguada Central Jail near Panaji, Dudu uses mobile Internet to keep in touch with the world and the cops don’t have a clue what to do about it. “The Assembly session is on, we cannot do anything till it gets over,” said a prison official.
The small love note that Dudu wrote was to his fiancé Zarine Driham, a Kazakhstan national, uploaded on April 15, 2010. His Facebook page is also replete with updates regarding his ongoing court case in Goa and messages from well-wishers. “Come on bro Aba’ah truth will come and you will be with us here and keep you fingers crossed” says Nahari Eyal, a friend of Dudu’s from Herzliya, Israel.
Jude Yhudit Azulay, a photographer based in Ramat Gen, Israel, posts, “Atonement for you... All miss you, and keep you fingers crossed.”
Dudu’s sister Ayala Driham, who spends six months of a year in Goa, also asks her brother to hold out. “Has one and only God in heaven do not lie to him, should not lie at all our lives whole,” reads her message.
The Israeli was arrested for possessing a cocktail of narcotics like ecstasy, cocaine, heroine, LSD and charas worth Rs3.81 lakhs on February 21.
Having access to mobile phones or the Internet in jail is illegal and prison officials refused to comment.