No sooner did her dreams seem to take wings that she made a phone call and informed that she had been held captive. [break]
This has come as a bolt from the blue to her father Khadga Bahadur Budha, 80. “She left saying she would make some money and also see a foreign land,” he said. “But ever since she made the phone call, I have neither been able to sleep nor eat well.”
In her conversation with Moti Prasad Sharma, a local, she pleaded him to rescue her. She informed that her employers had not allowed her to leave the house and that she had secretly made the call. Pavitra also said that she had not been paid her salary.
After learning about his daughter´s plight, her aging father has done all he could to secure her release, but without success. “I went to Nepalgunj and filed a complaint at Maiti Nepal. I also informed human rights workers. But my daughter is still not free,” he said.
Local rights workers have identified the agent who sent her to Kuwait, but have not been able to track her down. Rights worker Sushil Sharma said one Rabina Acharya (Rawal) of Latikoili-8 arranged her passage to Kuwait. One Komala Lama, who runs a manpower company in Kathmandu, sent her to Kuwait via Delhi.
The culprits are still walking scot-free. And the police do not seem much interested to hunt them down. With them out of reach, Pavitra´s family members have no idea about her location in Kuwait. During the phone conversation, Pavitra was unable to identify the place in which she is being held captive.
Pavitra´s phone call has left her whole family, including her handicapped husband, in anguish. Her two sons aged 17 and 12 have left school and are working as daily wage laborers.
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