Punjab woman ‘sold as slave’ in Saudi Arabia to return tomorrow: EAM

External Affair Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday said that Paramjit Kaur, who is illegally confined in Saudi Arabia after being duped by travel agent and sold to a family, is returning home tomorrow.

Paramjit Kaur of Gorsiya Nihal, 46 km from the district headquarters, had gone to Saudi Arabia for a job as house help on July 13, and contacted the family about her incarceration by an employer on August 21.

In an FIR lodged after she contacted her family, her husband Malkeet Ram (45) alleged that travel agent named Resham Bhatti of their village had promised a job to her in Saudi Arabia by saying that his wife too worked there and that the family would get Rs 40,000 once she is settled there. Once she was given a job, her passport was kept in the custody of her employer, and she is not allowed to move out of the house, said a relative, Naresh Kumar (50).

He also said that after Kaur reached Saudi Arabia, the employer confiscated her passport and did not allow her to leave the house.

Bhatti, who is absconding, has been booked under Sections 370 (buying or disposing of any person as a slave), 420 (cheating) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

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