STUCK IN SAUDI FOR 3 MONTHS, PUNJAB WOMAN RETURNS HOME
A week after her mother, Gurbaksh Kaur, 40, was rescued from Saudi Arabia on the intervention of Union external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj following a request by Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh, Reena Kaur, 21, was flown back from the Gulf nation and arrived in Delhi on Friday.
Gurbaksh and Reena are residents of Rahon town in Punjab’s Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar (earlier known as Nawanshahr). They were duped by travel agents in August and promised jobs in Malaysia only to be sent to Saudi Arabia to work as slaves.
Another woman, Paramjit Kaur of Nakodar, is also stuck in the country and her family is in touch with the Indian embassy there. Reena was received at the Delhi airport by her father, Gurmail Singh, brother Mintu and cousin Jaswant Singh. “I can’t explain the trauma I’ve been through in the last three months. I had lost all hopes to return home,” Reena said.
Reena shared her location with the family via the online messaging tool, WhatsApp. The family informed the external affairs ministry on Wednesday. The app showed an address in Unayzah town of Al Wusta district in Saudi Arabia. It helped the authorities trace her.
Another woman, Paramjit Kaur of Nakodar, is also stuck in the country and her family is in touch with the Indian embassy there.
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