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Indian man, daughter in Bahrain forced to live out in the open
Monday May 13, 2013 06:56:11 PM,
IANS
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Dubai: An expatriate
Indian man and his three-year-old daughter in Bahrain have been
forced to rough it out in the open for the last six months after a
business deal went sour.
A desperate Mohammad Sikandar Samrat and his daughter Sara have
been living in a park, mosque and car since November 2012 as his
daughter does not have a passport and he is yet to get 65,000
Bahraini dinars owed to him by a Bahraini businessman, the Gulf
Daily News reported Monday.
The father-daughter duo was forced out in the open after his wife
and their youngest daughter left for India in November last year.
"This has been going on for the last six months when I was forced
to send my family home after I could no longer cope," Samrat told
the newspaper in a Manama park where the two are currently taking
shelter. His wife is a qualified nurse.
Though he has a small one-room apartment in Manama, he said it was
impossible to stay there as there was no water or electricity.
According to Samrat, he was doing well running a small business
for the Bahraini businessman getting marble and stone supplies
from India for land reclamation projects.
However, all that changed in 2009.
"When I went to the gentleman to ask for money, he gave me seven
cheques worth BD40,000 - all of which bounced,” Samrat was quoted
as saying.
"He promised to pay me the money in instalments, but that never
happened as well. Numerous visits to his office also yielded
nothing."
He said he and his daughter spent very little time in his
apartment and go to a mosque at 3 a.m when it opens and then spend
the rest of the time in the park and a friend's car.
He also owed his landlord 1,000 Bahraini dinars but he said the
latter was kind and has not put pressure on him.
The father and the daughter are surviving on a diet of khubuz or
Arabic bread and chickpeas.
He said he could not apply for Sara's passport when she was born
in July 2010 because he did not have any money then.
Now, he said, he has done all the paperwork for her passport.
"The (Indian) embassy has told me they need special permission
from India to issue a passport since she is more than one year
old,” he said.
When contacted, an official in the embassy told the newspaper
everything would be done to help the stranded Indian duo.
Samrat has also moved court against the defaulting businessman
filing a criminal case.
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