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Indian Agents For Misery Of Trafficked Nepalese Housemaids
By KTM Metro Reporter
December 31, 2011: speaking at a community function called ‘Guru’ to mark the advent of the New Year 2012, Nepalese Ambassador Udaya Raj Pandey said, “This is a big challenge we are facing with the Nepalese housemaids working here, who were trafficked into Saudi Arabia through illegal channels,” the Arab News reported on Friday, December 30, 2011.
Ambassador Pandey explained that job agents from India go to Nepal and promise the women lucrative jobs in the Saudi Kingdom. They are brought to the Indian cities such as Mumbai and Delhi for sending them for employment as housemaids in Saudi Arabia, he added. Nepalese citizens do not require visas to enter India, he noted. These maids, he said, come to the Saudi Kingdom through these illegal channels and become victims of recruiting agents, who exploit them to the extent possible.
“On investigation into a complaint made by a runaway housemaid for nonpayment of salaries for seven months, we found that the local agent had taken the money from the local sponsor in lieu of the maid’s hard work in the Kingdom,” Ambassador Pandey said. Another maid, Rita Pasi, 51, he said, was sent back by her sponsor to the agent in Riyadh, where she was raped and severely beaten by the money-minded agents.
