Sponsor attacks worker with knife
The sponsor allegedly attacked a worker, Mohan Prasad Prajapathi, with a knife after beating him on Saturday.
His fault: Prajapathi had asked him to pay his salaries for six months.
Recounting the incident to the Tribune, the 27-year-old aluminium fabricator said the sponsor pressed the knife against him and asked “Are you feeling the pain? You will feel more pain if you don’t go to work.”
Mohan said he got scared and ran away before the sponsor could harm him further with the knife. “He picked up the knife from my own room and ran it several times along the left side of my chest, cutting the skin. It was the knife I was cutting vegetables with,” he said.
Sponsor attacks worker with knife
The sponsor allegedly attacked a worker, Mohan Prasad Prajapathi, with a knife after beating him on Saturday.
His fault: Prajapathi had asked him to pay his salaries for six months.
Recounting the incident to the Tribune, the 27-year-old aluminium fabricator said the sponsor pressed the knife against him and asked “Are you feeling the pain? You will feel more pain if you don’t go to work.”
Mohan said he got scared and ran away before the sponsor could harm him further with the knife. “He picked up the knife from my own room and ran it several times along the left side of my chest, cutting the skin. It was the knife I was cutting vegetables with,” he said.
Mohan said that since he began work as aluminium fabricator about 18 months ago, his sponsor had been paying the salaries once in two months. “My sponsor has to pay me six months’ salaries which total BD600 as well as overtime.”
Mohan said while he was in India he had paid BD350 to the sponsor though a cousin who worked in Bahrain, to arrange his (Mohan’s) permit to work with the sponsor.
“There have been complaints against my sponsor but he still treats all his workers badly. Two of my colleagues have submitted to the authorities a case against him for pending salaries.”
Mohan approached the Indian embassy on Sunday and with their assistance lodged a complaint against the sponsor at the Ministry of Labour. Mohan also contacted an advocate to look into his case.
Embassy officials and the lawyer found that Mohan did not have a CPR. He even does not even know if a residence permit has been stamped on his passport.
Article from: Bahrain Tribune Newspaper-