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In a letter from India's minister for non-resident Indian welfare, Palle Raghunatha Reddy to the External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, he urged her to rescue women from states like Andhra and Telangana as the women are languishing in jails in Gulf states; after they attempted to flee abusive employers or overstayed their visas.
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Women from Andhra Pradesh and the neighbouring state of Telangana are sold like products in a retail shop, Reddy wrote.
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He also asked the government to take steps to bring them to their native areas safely by providing free travel and necessary visa documents adding that embassy officials in Gulf countries should be asked to interfere and provide necessary help in terms of food, clothing and shelter to those in distress.
He claimed that women from India are being sold "Women are being sold to the tune of 400,000 rupees ($6,000)in Saudi Arabia and between 100,000 ($1,500) to 200,000 rupees ($3,000) in Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait," he wrote.
There is no currently no official data on the exact count of the migrants stranded in Gulf countries but experts put the numbers in tens of thousands, many of them in jail.
Source: India Times
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