Indian community workers are looking for a passenger who can accompany an ailing person to India who is scheduled to leave on Friday.
31-year-old Mohammed Anwar, from Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh in India, had arrived to work as a domestic driver with a Saudi family in Abha in December 2012 and had developed psychiatric problems and his sponsor decided to have him returned to India. He was originally scheduled to leave to India on Feb. 7 through an Air India flight departing from King Khalid Airport in Riyadh but airport staff did not allow him to board the flight following a row, said Mr. Shihab Kottukad of NORKA, a grassroots organization in Saudi Arabia.
According to Shihab, the Saudi employer, he had transferred the worker to his family house in Riyadh but after many incidents, had the worker handed over to Areeja Police station in Riyadh and had approached the Indian Embassy in Riyadh for assistance for the worker's repatriation.
Following the intervention of the embassy, Mohammed Anwar was taken to a hospital where doctors provided him with medical treatment and a new booking through Saudia airlines to fly to India.
On the way to the airport, the worker escaped from the car and began running in the busy streets but was captured unhurt and later transferred to Al Amal Psychiatric Hospital in Riyadh where he was given treatment and later discharged from the hospital.
Shihab said that the patient is presently residing at the Shifa Jazirah Polyclinic and scheduled to fly on Friday through Saudia Airlines flight 894 to the Indian city of Lucknow. He has also requested any Indian who is traveling on the same route to accompany him.
