‘The incident happened after… she complained about torture and non-payment of wages by her employer.’ .
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A 58-year-old Indian woman suffered serious injuries, allegedly from her Saudi sponsor.
“Chopping of hand of Indian lady – We are very much disturbed over the brutal manner in which Indian lady has been treated in Saudi Arabia (sic)”, wrote External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Twitter on Friday.
The Saudi sponsor, who has not been named, told Arab News that Munirathinam’s right hand was amputated as a result of her failed attempt to flee by jumping from a window. Our Mission officials have visited Mrs Kasthuri in the hospital.
And what about our government, what is it doing to calm the families of the many missing and to ask the Saudi royals to expedite the matter?
Another 129 Hajj pilgrims from Bangladesh – 105 men and 24 women – died of natural causes this year, the secretary added.
But the ruling Al Saud family likely would never give up its role in administering the holy sites, which along with Saudi Arabia’s oil wealth gives it major influence in the Muslim world.
A television grab of Kasturi Munirathinam in a Riyadh hospital. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said, “The IRGC has prepared all its possible potentials in order to fulfill the will of the great leader of the Islamic Revolution and make the Saudi dynasty answer for the crimes it committed in Mina and restore the rights of the victims”.
In this way employers avoid the US$2,500 (Dh9,200) bank guarantee that they are required to deposit with the Indian embassy for each hire, under a scheme formulated in 2007.
A primary contributing factor to such cruel exploitation of vulnerable human beings is the culture that prevails in countries like Saudi Arabia, making it hard to distinguish between the violence executed by the State and its guilty citizens.
India also demanded an independent investigation and called for the unidentified assailant to be charged with attempted murder.
Unscrupulous Indian recruitment agents are primarily responsible for the plight of Indian maids, who get ill-treated by their employers in the Gulf Co-operation Council countries. In recent times, the country did appear to be in the process of redeeming this awful state of affairs as was evident from the labour pact it inked a year ago with India and Sri Lanka, their largest contributor of female domestic help.
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The attack follows another high-profile incident in early September in which two Nepali maids accused a Saudi Arabian embassy official in Delhi was accused of raping, assaulting, starving and holding them hostage. The family now wants her recovery and safe return.
