Kolkata engineer sold as slave in Saudi Arabia, family requests MEA for help
Family members of the engineer- Jayanta Biswas- claimed that after completing BTech in automobile engineering from a private engineering college in North Bengal last year, he was looking for a job and few job-brokers communicated with him this year and offered him job opportunities in Arabian counties.
Those brokers allegedly sent Jayanta to Saudi Arabia's Riyadh in May on a tourist visa and sold him to Saudi citizen as slave.
The engineer was tortured and sexually assaulted there for several times, his family alleged.
After few months, Jayanta Biswas, who hails Naihati in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, somehow managed to escape and went to an Indian embassy there.
The embassy officials reportedly handed him over to an NGO.
Later, the Arabian citizen, who bought Jayanta as a slave, filed a complaint of theft against him and the young engineer was arrested by Saudi police.
Jayanta's family members claimed that the called the job-brokers and were instructed to pay 35000 rupees as penalty.
After paying the money, Jayanta was released from jail on October 27 and stuck in the country due to legal problems.
According to reports, his family members sought the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for help to bring the engineer back to India.
Till the last update came in, Jayanta Biswas's family has not been communicated by the MEA.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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