Chennai woman tortured in UAE sends video, seeks help from CM MK Stalin

CHENNAI: Police are looking into the complaint of a 37-year-old Tondiarpet woman who in a video requested chief minister M K Stalin to free her from the cramped house in Dubai where she has been forced to stay and work for 20 hours a day.
The video is part of the complaint lodged with the Tondiarpet police by James Paul, seeking help to rescue his wife Bhuvana James Paul. An FIR is yet to be registered. The woman's family also alerted AIMS, an NGO, whose co-founder Kanya Babu said she had sent an e-mail to the Indian Embassy officials in the UAE on the matter.
In the video, accessed by TOI, Bhuvana says she was staying with her husband James Paul, a daily wager, and their daughters Lycina, 16, and Lydia, 14, when she decided to go to Dubai. She approached a Choolaimedu-based agent and paid 10,000 for a medical examination. In February, she was sent to Dubai with the promise of 150 dinars (3,330) a month as wages, but was paid only 102 dinars (2,264) a month, she says.
She says her day began at 5am and ended around 1am the next day. "The agent in Choolaimedu said I would have to attend to a couple and their child. But I am forced to work for 13-15 people."
Bhuvana says her houseowner beat her up when she insisted on getting some rest. "I was not treated for the injury and forced to continue to work." She says she used her phone in secret in the bathroom at night to make a video of her plight and send it to her husband.