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An Indian housemaid had her hand hacked off allegedly by her female employer in Saudi Arabia after she asked for her pay.
Kasthury (Kasturi) Munirathnam, 58 from Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India, is in a serious condition in a hospital after the horrendous accident.
According to officials, the Indian worker suffered physical and mental harassment and torture while her sister informed journalists that her employer didn’t give her food and her entitled wage.
"Ever since she went to work with this family in July, things were not alright. My mother was not even allowed to speak to us over the phone, she was not given proper food and was forced to work long hours,” her son S Kumar told BBC Hindi.
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“When she tried to escape the harassment and torture, her right arm was chopped off by the woman employer. Now my sister can’t even sit and do simple things on her own, as her spinal cord has also been injured,” her sister S Vijayakumari added.
According to RT, India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was outraged about the incident, saying that this was “unacceptable.”
Vikas Swarup, a spokesman for the Indian Foreign Ministry, said:
“Our embassy in Riyadh has taken up the matter with the Saudi Foreign Office and asked for strict action in the matter and severe punishment for the sponsor. We have also sought an independent probe in the incident and urged that a case of attempted murder be lodged against the sponsor so that he is punished, if found guilty as per law.”
This is not the first human rights violation reported for a Saudi Arabia employer. In September a Saudi diplomat in New Delhi, was accused of holding two Nepalese women as sex slaves and gang-raping them.
RT reported that the diplomat claimed diplomatic immunity and filed a report against local police for invading his private property.
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