Hyderabad woman seeks MEA help to rescue 21-year-daughter from Oman

HYDERABAD: The mother of a 21-year-old woman from Yakutpura in the city has written to external affairs minister S Jaishankar to rescue her daughter from Muscat, Oman and send her back home to India.
Shaheen Begum travelled to Muscat in May this year on the promise by an agent that she would be employed as a helper in a store. Her mother Shezhadi Begum said an agent had approached the family with the promise of a good salary and took her on a visit visa. She mentioned the name of an agent at Vattepally in Falaknuma area as having approached them with the false promise.
After Shaheen Begum landed in Muscat, she was handed over to a manpower consultancy firm which started sending her to different houses as a housemaid. She has informed her family that she was also not being given proper food and accommodation and also physically assaulted for refusing to go to different houses.
Majlis Bachao Tehreek (MBT) leader and social worker Amjed Ullah Khan provided the contact details of the agent and the name of the recruitment agency to the foreign minister for action to be initiated.
Shaheen Begum’s brother Mohd Mobeen told TOI that his sister had also developed severe infection on her body and was suffering. She was also not been taken care of properly. “We asked the local agent to get her back to India but he is demanding that we pay him Rs 2 lakh,” he said. The family has been trying to reach him but he is also not responding to calls as Shaheen Begum’s situation has got worsened in Muscat, he said.