Bengaluru, Feb 22: Thanks to joint efforts by the Protector of Emigrants in Bengaluru and Indian Embassy in Qatar, a 26-year-old woman from Karnataka who had been kept in confinement in Qatar has been rescued and brought back to India.
Anupama (name changed) from Holenarasipura in Hassan district arrived in Bengaluru on Thursday night. She was allegedly locked up in a house for 14 days, restrained from using a mobile and wasn't fed. There were three other women with her. On the midnight of February 12, they broke the window panes and fled before contacting local police.
Anupama, a diploma graduate in computer science, was jobless and her friend working in Kuwait suggested she try for a job abroad. She contacted an agency based in Chikkamagaluru which offered her a nanny's job in Qatar. After document verification, the agency demanded she pay Rs 2 lakh but she said she didn't have that kind of money.
The agency sent Anupama on a visitor visa but told her if questioned by immigration officials, she must claim she was visiting her sister. They also gave her a return ticket.
As Anupama was travelling abroad for the first time, she said she was ignorant about several things.
On January 12, Anupama left Bengaluru. But as she reached Qatar, all her documents, including passport, were confiscated by the agency. Her return ticket was cancelled and she was sent to a house to work as babysitter-cum-cook for Rs 30,000. She lived with four other maids in the same house, where they were made to work for 16-18 hours a day.
"I used to wake up around 5.30am every day and had to prepare breakfast for the employers by 6.30am. My work would end around 11pm every day. We never even got time to eat," Anupama told media on Friday. Four days into work, Anupama's nose started bleeding. However, the employers cared little and insisted she continue to work. After 18 days, she requested her employers that she be relieved.
The agency sent her to a house where three women were already present and locked her up with them. "They used to give us a glass of raw rice, an onion, tomato and potato to cook for ourselves. While we got rice every day, we had to use the vegetables for three days. We were not supposed to use mobiles or go out. Two people were monitoring us," she recalled.
Anupama and the others decided to approach police but for that they needed to escape. Around 1.30am on February 12, the four women managed to break window panes and jumped out. They ran for more than a kilometre and managed to approach police, who summoned the agency and got the women to speak to their families.
Anupama called her brother-in-law, who approached the Protector of Emigrants office in Koramangala, Bengaluru. Shubham Singh, PoE in Bengaluru, said they took up the issue with the Indian Embassy in Qatar, which immediately got in touch with Qatar police. Anupama said, "We were kept in prison for a couple of days and were sent to the deportation centre later."
Meanwhile, the Indian embassy got the agency to return the women's documents. However, the agents did not pay their salaries. Two of the women were sent to Hyderabad and the third to Kerala. On Friday, Anupama met Singh at his office, where her statement was recorded. "We have started the process of initiating action against the agency in India," he said.
Speaking to Coastaldigest.com, Mr D'Souza claimed that those who attack cattle transporters, also sometimes indulge in cattle trafficking.
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Mr.Bajarangi,Mr.Modi declared 80%of cow vigilantes as hooligans.Hope you know his address so that you can go to his home if you have damm.
It is sad to read some of the above comments. There should not be such low level comments.
Every Hindus are not fake gow rakshakas and every muslims are not cow smugglers.
I request all brothers of DK and Udupi to respect each other and we should live peacefully in our beautiful land.
These cow protectors do not have ba**s.....
@kiran bajarangi nikh popunda maga
Kiran Bajrangi ..... I know that is your DNA... Not a surprise ... Barking dogs do not bite .... There is no need of my address,, Give your address I will come to your home, to make your job easy....
@ kiran bajarangii
u people are good for these type of work only,
naam patha dehta tho thu ayenga kya .. u wil come wen liquer enter ur stomach... dar pok thuu be
We can feel the frustration in Kiran bajarangi's comments. Calm Down Bajarangi. Before you attack Slaughter house please make sure that no one from your group work their as a KASAI.
Kiran Bajrangi,
Gidad ki jab maut aati hai to wo sheher ki taraf baghta hai. Bajrangi Kasai khane ki taraf.
All these self styled gau rakshaks are un employed, uncultured goons
And they always attack one person in a group of 30-50 people... bcos they actually dont have guts to attack in small numbers for fear of their life ...
Congress is in power. Yet they can't take action against cow terrors.??? They are only limited to issuing press release and petitions, then who is controlling the govt.administrations??? CongRSS or BJP..??
Kya hum bewakoof hain..??
Mr.SK pura naam patha bejo darr pok, will come to your home and beat u.
@ Kiran Bajarani Bhaijan,
What a JOKE. We would like to see you in Slaughter House. Sharan Pumpwel please bring your Ambulance not the ARMY to protect your Bajarangis. All the Best. Abb ayega real Maza
abey saaley me dikatha hoon kithna dum he bolke samne ake dekho kuthe.
Kiran Bajrangi......Pls go ahead ....all the BEST.....let us see, who is your real MATHA....
KIran thumare gaand me dum hai tho slaughter house ko attack karkre dikana. Your 10 people attack a single person.
thanks for the information ivan, Next time we will directly attack slaughter houses.
Ivan at his best, agree this is what happening in india,
mainly this bajrangis are eating 90% of beef in india,
all beef business contact should be given to bajrangdal, then they will be happy.
yahh rightly said MLA saab 'Cows ‘rescued’ by vigilantes in coastal Karnataka end up in slaughterhouses'
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