Karwar man trapped in Saudi sends video SOS

Karwar: Balakrishna Kotarkar, a 34-year-old man from Kotar village in Karwar taluk has sent an SOS to the government of India, the Uttara Kannada DC and Karwar MLA Roopali Naik, requesting them to save him from his employer in Saudi Arabia.
Balakrishna has sent two videos from Khasim Sanaih, a place in Riyadh, and has stated that he was deceived by his employer and is trapped in Saudi Arabia. Balakrishna said that he was appointed as a driver in a company called Mulaka-Asr-Ar Corporation, and left for Saudi Arabia about eight months ago. He said that his employer had taken his passport. The company he is working for is in the recycling business.
When he went there, he was not given a driver’s post as promised, but forced to collect cardboard from dustbins beside the road. He has alleged that he has not been compensated properly, and that only three months salary has been received by him. “I have no money to buy food and am in a very bad condition,” Balakrishna said in the video. ‘When I tried to meet the owner of the company, he refused to meet me. I don’t know how to return, as my passport is with my company and I have no money to buy an air ticket,” he said.
“I don’t know the roads in Riyadh, and am also facing a language problem. My wife and children are in trouble in Karwar, as they have no money,” Balakrishna said in the video. While narrating his story, he broke down several times, and was found pleading for help from MLA Roopali Naik, stating that he had worked for the BJP as a booth committee member, when he was in Karwar.
Meanwhile Roopali Naik has tweeted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and foreign minister S Jaishankar, and requested them to help bring Balakrishna back to Karwar.