City beautician duped by agent to work as maid in Qatar, rescued

Hyderabad: A beautician from the city who was duped by an agent and forced to work as a maid in Qatar was finally rescued and has now returned home.
According to the Telangana Welfare Association Qatar (TWAQ) women’s wing, Sayeeda Farheen was duped by the agent who had taken QR 15,000 (equivalent to over Rs 3,00,000) from a Qatari to provide a maid but instead sent the beautician for the job.
Farheen reached Qatar in June and had no choice but to work as a maid as she had to repay the amount borrowed for her Gulf dream
“I had to work as a housemaid despite being promised a beautician’s job. My financial problems forced me to bear unexpected torture. When I told the agent to get me home, he said he would get a maid’s job at some other place,” said Farheen.
Farheen then contacted TWAQ and told the women’s wing general secretary Venkata Soujanya about her ordeal. Later, TWAQ member Lufti Kakar took her to the Indian Embassy to lodge a complaint.
“All work in the Indian Embassy and police station were finished in a couple of days and even the passport, which takes some time, was arranged in a day thanks to the efforts of TWAQ member Swarna,’’ Kakar told TOI.
Mohammed Taha, advisory committee member, said that Farheen safely landed in the city on August 18.