Kolkata engineer, sold as slave in Saudi Arabia, returns India

After completing BTech in automobile engineering from a private engineering college in North Bengal last year, the 23-year-old engineer- Jayanta Biswas- was looking for a job and few job-brokers communicated with him this year and offered him job opportunities in Arabian counties, according to his family.

His family members claimed that those brokers allegedly sent Jayanta to Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh in May on a tourist visa and sold him to Saudi citizen as slave.

The engineer was allegedly tortured and sexually assaulted there for several times.

After few months, Jayanta Biswas somehow managed to escape and went to an Indian embassy there.

The embassy officials reportedly handed him over to a local NGO.

Later, the Arabian citizen, who bought Jayanta as a slave, filed a complaint of theft against him and the young engineer was arrested by Saudi police.

Jayanta's family members claimed that they called the job-brokers and were instructed to pay 35000 rupees as penalty.

After paying the money, the young engineer was released from jail on Oct 27 and had stuck in the country due to legal problems.

Later in November, his family members sought the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for help to bring the engineer back to India.

According to reports, the Ministry of External Affairs took steps and successfully brought him back to Mumbai from Riyadh on Tuesday.

After reaching his country, Jayanta Biswas thanked Indian government and media.

However, Jayanta will be taken to Kolkata on Wednesday and he will meet his family in Naihati in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal thereafter, reports said.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)