Kathmandu, Mar. 22: The second general meeting of the service committee for Nepalese domiciled abroad held recently in Damam, Saudi Arabia has requested His Majesty’s Government to take initiative towards bringing an end to the mistreatment and injustice meted out to Nepalese working there.

The committee constituted with a view to extending necessary support to Nepalese labourers working in the gulf region including Saudi Arabia, has expressed sadness over the indifference on the part of women’s and human rights organisations with respect to the torture, rape, manhandling and inhuman behaviour meted out to Nepalese women working as housemaids in the region.

It has asked His Majesty’s Government to rescue such women and repatriate them safely.

Even though His Majesty’s Government has imposed a ban on Nepalese women going to the gulf region for employment, the traffic has not yet been stopped completely.

The committee, issuing a press release, referred to the widespread instances of torture, disappearances, framing on false charges and non-payment of remuneration by employers and also the tendency on the part of Nepalese agents to send Nepalese labourers by cheaper flights to wrong destinations thereby leaving them in the lurch.

Meanwhile in Rautahat, Vice-Chairman of local Dipahi Village Development Committee (VDC) Harischandra Jaiswal has filed a complaint against the VDC chairman Ram Biswas Raya Yadav alleging him of misappropriation of hefty sum of money in a deal the VDC signed with the plan international, an INGO.