Saudi embassy protests police raid on official’s house
NEW DELHI: Diplomatic troubles mounted for India over the case of a Saudi diplomat accused of torturing and raping two Nepalese women at his home in Gurgaon over three months. On Wednesday, the Saudi Ambassador Dr. Saud Mohammed Alsati met Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) officials dealing with West Asia and protested the Gurgaon police’s raid on the diplomat’s home, saying it was “against all diplomatic conventions.”
A press statement released by the Saudi embassy said the allegations against the diplomat and his family were “false” and “have not been proven.”
According to the statement of the two Nepalese women, aged 50 and 30, they had been locked up in the diplomat’s apartment at a posh residential complex in Gurgaon, and raped by the diplomat and several other Saudi Arabian men, and prevented from leaving the house by the diplomat’s wife and daughter at knife-point.
They were rescued on Tuesday by the police on a tip-off from an NGO that works on trafficking cases called, Maiti Nepal India, after a specific request from the Nepal embassy.
Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Nepal’s ambassador Deep Upadhyaya said they had been in touch with the MEA and the Gurgaon police and were “satisfied with the cooperation from the police.”
In a video, police are seen barging into the residence, pushing aside family members physically resisting their entry.
