Hyderabad, June 27: After an ordeal of two years, 128 stranded Indians who were working in Bahrain will soon be able to return home as a travel ban on them is about to be lifted. Of the 128 workers, 80 are from Andhra Pradesh, from districts like Adilabad, Karimnagar and Nizamabad.
Two years back, a Bahrain court had fined and imposed a travel ban on 128 workers of the Abdul Naas Company as they had left their jobs without the company’s consent.
Recently, on June 19, Indian Embassy officials had a meeting with the company representatives to solve the problem. The company had assured them that they would withdraw the cases and that the fines would be waived and the workers would be free to return.
Though blacklisted by the Indian government, the construction company had recruited about 2,000 workers from India between 2003 and 2006. Once the Indians were employed, they alleged that they were not provided with proper food and accommodation.
Accusing the company that their salaries were also not being paid as promised, 128 workers had quit without the consent of the company.
The company, in turn, had filed a case in a Bahrain court against the workers. The court had ordered a travel ban and imposed a fine of 497 Dinars (Rs 70,000) on the workers, stipulating that they would be allowed to leave the country only after paying the fines.
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