Employer cuts off Indian woman’s arm, India protests
The Indian Foreign Ministry has filed a strong note of protest with authorities in Riyadh over a recent case in which an Indian woman’s right arm was chopped off by her employer in Saudi Arabia.
Describing the incident as “unacceptable,” India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Friday that her government had raised the matter with Saudi officials.
“This is unacceptable. We have taken this up with Saudi authorities. Our embassy is in touch with the victim,” tweeted Swaraj on Friday, adding, “Chopping off [the] hand of [the] Indian lady - We are very much disturbed over the brutal manner in which the Indian lady has been treated in Saudi Arabia.”
Meanwhile, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup has also said that New Delhi would “continue to seek justice for the victim.”
“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,” Swarup said.
Swarup also said that India has sought an independent probe into the incident and has demanded that a case of attempted murder be lodged against the culprit.
Seeking to escape abuse, ending up with arm cut off
The tough stance by the Indian authorities came days after the right hand of Kasturi Munirathinam, a 58-year-old woman from the southern Indian city of Chennai, was chopped off by her Saudi employer when she tried to escape reported abuse.
“When she tried to escape the harassment and torture, her right hand was chopped off by the woman employer. She fell down and sustained serious spinal injuries,” Indian media outlets quoted Munirathinam’s sister as saying.
Keeping mum on medieval practices
Munirathinam’s family members said she has been hospitalized in Riyadh and “is in critical condition.”
According to her family, she was denied food and was being tortured by her Saudi employer.
Saudi authorities have not commented on the incident yet.
Hundreds of men and women from India work as domestic servants and laborers in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia has beheaded a number of individuals of different nationalities, including from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Philippines and Indonesia, over the past few years.
On April 16, Saudi Arabia decapitated an Indonesian female domestic worker just two days after executing another woman from the Southeast Asian country.
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