A Saudi businessman and his Pakistani employee who were arrested in Kerala, India for visa violations have been released and have returned to the Kingdom as a result of the intervention of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in India. Safr Bin Iqab Aal Zaid, the Saudi businessman, and his employee went to India to recruit workers on a business visa that apparently allowed them into Mumbai only. “We arrived in Mumbai and met the Indian coordinator who told us the workers we came to see were in Kerala,” Aal Zaid said. “We went there on a flight to meet and interview the workers, and we were arrested at the hotel three hours after we arrived,” he explained. He said they were then taken to court which referred them to detention. The two men were detained for 11 days before they were released on bail and told not to leave Calicut city where they stayed for a month. Aal Zaid said he was able to leave India after the Saudi embassy presented a written pledge to bring him back if it was proven that he committed a violation.
