HYDERABAD: A worker from Telangana is stuck at a Saudi detention centre and waiting to be sent back to India for the last nine months. Syed Muqtar of Bodhan in Nizamabad district had gone to Saudi Arabia two years ago.

"The employer troubled him and refused to pay him his salary," Muqtar's father Syed Hameed, an auto-electrician in Bodhan, told TOI. Syed Muqtar is in the Shumaisi Detention Centre in Riyadh.

On Saturday, AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi urged union external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj to look into Muqtar's case. "Please help me to go to my country. I am here not having committed any crime. Please help me," Muqtar had tweeted on Saturday to Sushma Swaraj.

The Consulate-General of India (CGI), Jeddah, responded by saying that the CGI was cognizant of his case as he was 'matloob' (wanted) by the sponsor. It was informed that he was in room no. 72 of the detention centre. The CGI said they were working on the case through his sponsor.

Muqtar's father Hameed said his son was sent to Saudi Arabia through an agent two years ago. But after Muqtar landed in Riyadh, he was not given salary.

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T worker stuck in detention centre in Saudi for 9 months - Times of India

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