Two Nepalese women have alleged gang-rape, torture at the Gurgaon residence of a Saudi diplomat
India today asked Saudi Arabia to cooperate with an investigation against one of its diplomats accused of rape and torture by two Nepalese women who worked at his apartment in Gurgaon near Delhi.
The Saudi Arabian envoy Saud Mohammed Alsati was called in to the foreign ministry office and told that the accused diplomat had to give a statement to the Haryana police.
The Nepal government is pressuring India to take action against the Saudi diplomat, say sources.
Sources say the foreign ministry can ask Saudi Arabia to waive its official's immunity and if that request is denied, then the official can be expelled. The diplomat has reportedly moved from his apartment to the embassy.
The two women, who were rescued on Monday from the fifth floor flat of the diplomat in a Gurgaon highrise, have returned to Nepal after testifying before a magistrate.
In the FIR or police complaint, which does not mention the diplomat's name but only "Saudi Arab
Ke Admi (people from Saudi Arabia)", the women have given the police a disturbing account of gang-rape, torture and slavery.
"We were treated like animals," said the older of the two women.
The women had been working with the family as domestic helps for four months. They allege that they were raped and tortured by different men who visited the house.
"They are a family of 6... The mother and older daughter would beat us. They used to be sent outside and then the men would rape us. We would scream and cry, then they used knives," said one of the women.
"They raped us, kept us locked up, did not give us anything to eat," she told NDTV.
The other woman, 30, said she was stripped, raped and brutalised by "a lot of men who would keep coming to the flat, whose language we never understood."