A young woman from Jalandhar, who went to Oman with the hope of improving her family’s financial condition, has returned home after enduring months of physical and mental torture in Muscat.

What began as a dream to earn a better livelihood turned into a nightmare that nearly cost her life. She credits her survival and safe return to the relentless efforts of Rajya Sabha member Balbir Singh Seechewal.

The victim said that she left Amritsar on June 15 this year and landed in Muscat via Mumbai . “The moment I arrived, I realised I had been trapped,” she said.

She was confined in an office-like building where more than 10 other Indian girls were also being held under similar conditions. The women were forced to work for up to 12 hours a day, beaten for the smallest mistakes, and often d

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