Tortured worker back home from Saudi
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DOHA (QATAR), OCT 21 - A Nepali woman based in Saudi Arabia has returned home after suffering physical and mental torture at the hands of her employer for nearly two years.
Madhu BK, 21, from Udipur VDC of Lamjung district boarded a flight back home on Monday with the help of the Nepali Embassy.
The embassy said in a statement that the family that employed Madhu assaulted her and kept her without paying her for months before her unconscious body was found in the emergency ward of a Riyadh-based hospital in an unclaimed state. Madhu’s master had brought her to the infirmary. After Madhu was discharged from the hospital, the embassy gave her refuge and filed a lawsuit against her employer. The case was settled after Madhu’s employer agreed to pay 55,000 Saudi Riyal (Rs. 1.1 million).
An official at the embassy said the money awarded by a Saudi Arabian court to Madhu will be transferred to her after she reaches home.
Posted on: 2010-10-21 08:04
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