Jalandhar-based woman’s body arrives from Dubai

Tribune News service

Amritsar, January 5

Body of a Jalandhar-based woman (22), who died at Dubai, reached Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport here on Friday. Dreaming of a good life, deceased Meenu had migrated to Dubai a month ago. The body was airlifted with the efforts of a social organisation, Sarbat Da Bhala Trust, being run by SP Singh Oberoi.

Sharing the information, Dr SP Singh Oberoi, founder of Sarbat Da Bhala Charitable Trust, said Meenu had gone to Dubai a month ago to work as a labourer in an attempt to improve her family’s financial situation but she soon died after falling ill.

Oberoi said the Indian embassy had contacted him and informed that a girl belonging to Punjab had died in Dubai but her whereabouts could not be traced. After gathering all the information about the girl, he contacted her widow mother living in Jalandhar and informed her about Meenu’s death.

Meenu had fallen ill soon after reaching Dubai but instead of getting her treated, the people who brought her to Dubai had forced her to pay the pending amount.

Oberoi said she was admitted to the hospital in a critical condition. She succumbed later. After completing all necessary paperwork with the help of the Indian Embassy, the body of Meenu was airlifted to Amritsar.

Oberoi further said the trust would also bear the cost of transporting the body of the girl to her house and cremating her. Considering the poor financial condition of the family, her widow mother would be given a monthly pension of Rs 2,000.