Bhubaneswar, Dec. 16 -- After being held hostage for over one and half months in civil war-torn Sudan, Adarsha Behera, a youth from Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district has been freed. This was informed by BJP MP from Jagatsinghpur Bibhu Prasad Tarai on Tuesday.

The MP said he had raised the issue in the Lok Sabha and urged the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to intervene for the safe release of the abducted Odia youth.

According to Tarai, Adarsha will depart from Abu Dhabi at 11.40 pm on Tuesday and arrive in Hyderabad. He is scheduled to leave Hyderabad at 7 am on Wednesday and reach Biju Patnaik International Airport, Bhubaneswar, at 8.30 am.

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