Monday, April 16, 2012

Rights body urges compensation for widower in airport death case

Hyderabad: The chief minister's office has been urged to release an ex gratia amount of Rs 5 lakh to Imamsaab Lomada, a labourer from Papepally village in Chittoor, whose wife died in Muscat in 2010. Nearly a year and a half after the death of his wife Beebi Lomada at Muscat airport, widower Imamsaab is still awaiting compensation for his family's loss.
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Beebi, who had gone to Muscat to work as a housemaid, died of cardiac arrest allegedly due to starvation on October 8, 2010 at the Muscat airport. After she lost her passport in transit while boarding a flight to Chennai, she was stranded at the airport for five days as her employer had cancelled her visa.
Imamsaab blamed the Qatar Airways, the Muscat airport authorities and the Indian embassy officials there for the fate his wife suffered and claimed that the government of AP and Muscat had promised him monetary compensation after his wife passed away, but he has not received any money till date.
16/04/12 Times of India
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