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Cheated worker has no cash to pay for air ticket
DUBAI — While the Indian community in the UAE was busy celebrating the Independence Day yesterday, 32-year-old Selvadurai Thangasami, who hails from a remote village in Tamil Nadu, was waiting patiently for an air-ticket to return home after his ordeal.
Selvadurai, who came to Dubai a month ago, fell prey to an employment racket. He was promised a lucrative job in the emirate by a fraudulent job agent if he paid him Dh15,000. Hence, Selvadurai, a farmer from a village in the Vridachalam district of the state in South India, gave up his land and sold his wife's jewellery to come to Dubai.
"The trouble started the moment I arrived at the Sharjah International airport. The agent didn't deposit the original copy of my visa at the airport, so I was forced to stay at the airport for five days. However, on the sixth day, the document was submitted and I was free to go. Then, the agent came and demanded an additional fee of Dh 500."
"I told them that I had no money," said Selvadurai, but the agent refused to believe him and snatched his passport and belongings from him. "He insisted I pay him the money to get back my things."
"Later, I spent a lot of time at the Satwa bus station. Two days ago, I stopped a police patrol car and explained my plight. They gave me some money and asked me to go and report the matter to the Labour Department."
Meanwhile, social workers of the Valley of Love, a charitable organisation, were informed of Selvadurai's plight and the promptly came forward to help. They even managed to obtain an 'out pass' for Selvadurai. Now he waits to return home — if only, he can somehow manage to procure an air ticket.
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