Consultate to take up Indian worker's torture at the hands of employer with Saudi authorities

HYDERABAD: The Consulate General of India (CGI) Jeddah has said it would strongly take up the issue of an Indian worker from Telangana physically tortured by his employer in Saudi Arabia with the Governorate in Taif.
“The Consulate was making its efforts to repatriate him to India. In the meantime, this incident has been brought to our notice today,” CGI Jeddah said in a response to Naveen Achari, general secretary of Telangana Jagruthi who also shared the video of the Telangana worker’s appeal in which he described how he was being tortured by his employer.
The video of 31-year-old Ankamalla Ravi bleeding from his mouth and nose and head went viral on social media. In the video Ravi, a native of Armoor in Telangana, who was working in a date palm farm describes the torture he was being meted out by his employer who was refusing to allow him to go back to India. He said in the video that feared being killed by his employer at Salamiya village in Al Khurma province of Saudi Arabia.
Ankamalla Ravi’s wife had also appealed to the State Human Rights Commission in Telangana to rescue her husband. In an advice on May 16, the commission directed that the Government of Telangana and also the Ministry of external affairs to look into the complaint of Ankamolla Sujatha.
The torture that Ankamalla Ravi said he was suffering prompted many to share his video in social media urging the authorities to rescue him. Former Nizamabad MP Kavitha Kalvakuntla too tweeted to union external affairs minister S Jaishankar.