Hyderabad: Trapped in Muscat, Shaheen’s mother seeks help to MEA

Hyderabad: A mother hailing from Old city’s Yakutpura has written to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar requesting him to rescue and bring her daughter back to India from Muscat.

According to sources, Shezhadi Begum mother of Shaheen Begum said her daughter traveled to Muscat in May this year after an agent promised her a job as a helper in a store.

An agent at vattepally in Falaknuma had approached the family promising a good salary and took Shaheen on a visit visa, TOI reports.

As soon as Shaheen reached Muscat, the agent handed her over to a manpower consultancy firm which started sending her to different houses as a housemaid.

She somehow contacted her family and narrated the ordeal where she is being assaulted for refusing to go to different houses apart from not fed properly.

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 speaking to TOI said his sister had also developed severe infection on her body and was suffering.

“We asked the local agent to get her back to India but he is demanding that we pay him Rs 2 lakh,” he said.