Indian woman Sukhwant Kaur 'sold, tortured' in Saudi returns tomorrow: Sushma

The government has found a 55-year-old Jalandhar woman who was allegedly sold and tortured in Saudi Arabia and is sending her back to India, foreign minister Sushma Swaraj said on Monday.

Reacting to a story in a tweet, Swaraj said Sukhwant Kaur - who had gone to the west Asian country on a three-month tourist visa in January - would be returning on a Sharjah-Mumbai Air Arabia flight.

She is expected to reach at 4.15am on Wednesday.

 

Earlier this month, it was  reported how Sukhwant, a resident of Ajtani village of Nurmahal division, was taken to Saudi Arabia by a Delhi-based agent.

Her husband Kulwant Singh told HT his wife was in contact with him over phone for a week after she landed in



Dubai. But a few days later, her phone was found switched off and the agent stopped taking calls.

"On May 7, my wife called me up from a hospital in Hail City of Saudi Arabia. She said the travel agent had sold her to a local resident and she was forced to work as a slave in his house and was being badly treated and even tortured," he said.

She was admitted to hospital and the Indian embassy in Saudi Arabia assured all help to the family after Kulwant made an appeal to Sushma Swaraj on Twitter.

 

Sukhwant Kaur

"My wife Sukhwant Kaur is in trouble. She wants to come back home but her passport is with a travel agent who has disappeared now," Kulwant Singh told .