RIYADH: An Indian expatriate who completed a two-year jail term in January 2014 for aiding and abetting a murder was released on Tuesday following representations made by the Indian mission and a group of community workers.

Mohamed Nazer, 43, from Malalam in the state of Kerala, was convicted of aiding and abetting the murder of a handicapped child Anas Faiz Al-Shehri by Abdul Raheeem, a domestic worker in the Saudi household.

The judgment was given in 2012 for the murder which took place in 2006 December in the Mansooriyah district in the capital.

Abdul Raheem was sentenced to death, while Nazer was sentenced to two years imprisonment with 300 lashes. The convict Abdul Raheem has appealed his case and his representations are being reviewed by the court of appeals.

On behalf of Nazer, Gammon Group Director and Secretary to Prince Saud bin Musaed bin Abdulaziz, Abdullah Al-Obaidi, submitted a petition to bail Nazer out since he had already served his jail term.

Indian Embassy First Secretary Labor Welfare Anil Nautyal said that the mission has been consistently following this case from 2006. “Mohamed Nazer has been released on bail and there is a travel ban on him since his private rights case has to be settled while he is in the Kingdom,” the diplomat said, stressing that the convict has already completed his term of imprisonment.

Coming out of the jail, Nazer thanked the Indian embassy and the Gammon Group Chairman Sheikh Rafik and other social service organizations who were instrumental to his release from the jail.

Nazer, who sent his wife and two children home shortly after the incident in 2006, went for an Umrah on Thursday with Sheikh Rafik.