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Rape-accused Saudi diplomat leaves India with wife: Media report
New Delhi, Sept 10 (IBNS) A day after the Ministry of External Affairs sought a detailed report from the police on the allegation of a Saudi diplomat raping two Nepali women, the accused has left India along with his wife, media reports said.
The two Nepalese women were rescued on Monday from the diplomat's apartment in Gurgaon near Delhi where they had been living.
They alleged gang-rape, torture and slavery.
The torture allegedly began in Jeddah, where the women were hired by the family as domestic helps, and continued in Gurgaon. Over three months, the women were allegedly raped and tortured by different men who visited the house.
One of them, a 50-year-old from Morang in Nepal, had divorced recently. The other woman, 20, has two little children in Nepal's Baglung, and a husband who has cancer.
They said they were afraid to tell anyone because they were beaten and threatened, sometimes with a knife.
The torture came to light after a newly- hired help ran away and contacted a non-profit - Meitei India to tell the horror tale. The organisation then went to the police.
Reports said the rescue team saw two Saudi women beating up the Nepalese women. The Saudi women also allegedly assaulted and abused the police.
However, the the embassy of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday termed the allegations of sexual assault against one of its diplomats as "false" and said it has protested to the External Affairs Ministry over "police intrusion" into a diplomat's house in violation of "all diplomatic conventions".
"Embassy strongly stresses that these allegations are false and have not been proven. Embassy protests the unwarranted media briefing before the investigation was complete and protests police intrusion into the diplomat's residence," the embassy had said in a statement.
The torture allegedly began in Jeddah, where the women were hired by the family as domestic helps, and continued in Gurgaon. Over three months, the women were allegedly raped and tortured by different men who visited the house.
One of them, a 50-year-old from Morang in Nepal, had divorced recently. The other woman, 20, has two little children in Nepal's Baglung, and a husband who has cancer.
They said they were afraid to tell anyone because they were beaten and threatened, sometimes with a knife.
The torture came to light after a newly- hired help ran away and contacted a non-profit - Meitei India to tell the horror tale. The organisation then went to the police.
Reports said the rescue team saw two Saudi women beating up the Nepalese women. The Saudi women also allegedly assaulted and abused the police.
However, the the embassy of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday termed the allegations of sexual assault against one of its diplomats as "false" and said it has protested to the External Affairs Ministry over "police intrusion" into a diplomat's house in violation of "all diplomatic conventions".
"Embassy strongly stresses that these allegations are false and have not been proven. Embassy protests the unwarranted media briefing before the investigation was complete and protests police intrusion into the diplomat's residence," the embassy had said in a statement.
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