Nizamabad man’s body stuck in Saudi for 100 days, wife moves HC

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Updated: Feb 9, 2021, 13:38 IST

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Having waited patiently for 100 days for her husband’s mortal remains to be sent from Saudi Arabia, a woman from Nizamabad has approached Telangana high court seeking its intervention and repatriation of the body of Vontari Narsa Reddy.

Nizamabad man’s body stuck in Saudi for 100 days, wife moves HC

Narsa Reddy’s kin at the Protector of Emigrants office in Secunderabad

HYDERABAD: Having waited patiently for 100 days for her husband’s mortal remains to be sent from Saudi Arabia, a woman from Nizamabad has approached Telangana high court seeking its intervention and repatriation of the body of Vontari Narsa Reddy.
Narsa Reddy died in a mishap at his workplace in Saudi Arabia on November 1, 2020. His wife Vontari Laxmi of Sirnapally village in Indalwai mandal has made several representations to the authorities, including MEA.

The family has also made requests to the Indian embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Telangana governments but has got no response yet. With the help of Pravasi Mithra Labour Union (PMLU), she filed the petition in the court.
“He had been working in Saudi Arabia for the last seven years and died while on duty. We have got no response either from the employer or the authorities on sending his body back to Nizamabad. We are going through a lot of trauma waiting for his body to arrive,” mother Sathyamma said.
Narsa Reddy’s wife Laxmi, sister Shobha and other family members travelled to Hyderabad from Nizamabad and submitted a petition to the Protector of Emigrants (PoE), ministry of external affairs, at the office in Secunderabad, seeking immediate help to send his body back to the state.
Anguished by the family’s plight, Swadesh Parikipandala, president of PMLU, approached human rights activist and advocate P Shashi Kiran, who filed the writ plea in the high court on February 4.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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