Consulate takes action

After seeing her tweets, Swaraj alerted Consul General of India to Dubai Vipul over the networking app, who sprung to action almost immediately. Sumathi Vasudev, the Labour Attache at the CGI said, "Simaranjeet Kaur came to UAE on a visit visa. We received information that she was at Terminal 2 of Dubai Airport. By tracing the passenger details on Air India, we realised that she has cleared immigration." The family began to fear more as the agents mobile numbers cannot be reached.

Simran at Airport before departure. pic.twitter.com/OfCPQqwdab

— India in Dubai (@cgidubai) July 29, 2018

The CGI later collected contact details of the girl's agent from the family and requested Roop Sidhu, the Secretary General of the Ajman Indian Association to look into the matter. Sidhu told Khaleej Times, "Since housemaid abandonment cases are common in Ajman, we were able to trace her through our network of other recruitment agents. We found her in a matter of hours on Saturday evening, where she was given shelter by the Association."

As a citizen of India, it was my duty. Thankyou so much mam for taking care of it. Just because of you, simran is rescued in 48 hours!

— Monica Sharma (@monicasharma27) July 28, 2018

Roop added, "From my conversation with her, it was evident that the girl got scared, and given that she has no formal education - neither in Punjabi, English, or Hindi, she was not able to provide a written statement stating her experiences." Roop also confirmed that he has reason to believe that the agent did not treat her in any kind of abusive manner and that she lived with other housemaids in accommodations in Ajman.

Local authorities have warned Indian nationals to be careful when accepting job offers to Dubai from India.

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