External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said on Thursday that the three Indian migrant workers who were beaten by their Saudi Arabian employer with a wooden plank will be back in India within a week. Swaraj added that her ministry reported the matter to the Saudi police and was in touch with the Indian workers.
The case came to light when a video of the men being beaten up by their employer went viral on WhatsApp. CNN-IBN reported that the three men were reportedly conned by a placement agency that made false promises of getting them jobs.
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