Timely intervention by Shashi Tharoor, MP, has helped the repatriation of two Non-Resident Keralites (NoRKs) who were trapped under different circumstances in Kuwait.
Tampi Mabels, a sexagenarian who was detained in a Kuwait jail for over a year, safely returned to his family in Thiruvananthapuram as a result of Mr. Tharoor’s intervention with the Indian Ambassador in Kuwait.
Mabels was arrested in 2016 while working as sales executive at Kuwait and Saudi Development Company after his sponsor, a Kuwaiti citizen, filed a breach of trust case against him.
Mabels was cleared by a local court, but the sponsor kept filing appeals in Kuwait courts to prevent his release and departure from Kuwait. Mr. Tharoor had been liaising with the Indian Ambassador since April this year to secure his release, the MP’s office said in a statement here.
The other case related to the rescue of Leema Raju, a native of Vallakadavu here, who was kept under house arrest by her sponsor since April. She was provided shelter at the Indian Embassy after her husband approached Mr. Tharoor seeking his intervention.
Leema, who returned home on Wednesday, was recruited by an Indian agency and arrived in Kuwaiti to work as a domestic help. But the agent handed her over to a Kuwaiti sponsor who subjected her to physical and mental torture, denying her food and medicine.