Hyderabad: The video of a woman from Bengaluru who was working in Saudi, explaining how she was being tortured by her employer has gone viral. Nagina Khatoon who is now in the Gurayat General Hospital 1,200 km away from Riyadh said her employer had broken her teeth and is torturing her. The Indian Embassy in Riyadh responded to the video which was tweeted on Friday.
Nagina Khatoon, 40, went to Saudi Arabia nearly five years ago on a Kadama visa. For one-and-a-half years, she was working as a maid in the house of her original employer and was paid regularly. But she landed in trouble after he sold her to another man named Majeed three-and-a-half years ago. Since then, he had been torturing her. Nagina said that he had not paid her a single dirham since she started working for him and whenever she asked him for salary, he was assaulted. She says the torture was severe. “He beat me continuously, forced me to sleep in the bathroom and did not give me food. He shaved my head and broke my teeth when I asked him why he was not paying,” Nagina said in the video.
Recently, Majeed broke her left leg and when she became immovable he took her to the hospital in Al Qurayyat. “Not only my khafeel (employer) but his children also assaulted me. He did not allow me to speak to my daughter Tabassum living in Bengaluru. He is a top official here, and is not afraid of anyone,” she said.
Nagina has lost her memory and does not remember the name of her previous employer and the agent who sent her to Saudi. She is undergoing treatment for severe infection on the injured leg. A hospital employee videographed her and uploaded it on the Net. The same video was tweeted by a Hyderabad resident, to which the Indian Embassy in Riyadh responded. "Have constituted a team, which has started work. Place is around 1200 km from Riyadh, but doing our best to reach her. Sic." the embassy tweeted.
