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His body remained in the morgue for over three months before being sent sent to India following an intervention from the government.Superintendent of Police, Operations, Batala, Baljit Singh informed that Rajinder’s father had made a complaint to police. “The application had been marked to the Superintendent of Police, headquarter, for a probe following which we will register an FIR and begin investigations”. "He had promised me a driver’s job in a good company but here I am forced to work as a labourer, beaten even not given food to eat,” he says while making frequent appeals to save him from hellish life.His father, Baldev Singh, said that he had borrowed money to send his son abroad for the family’s better future. "The agent told that he will get a salary of over Rs 50000 but now his life is in danger,” he said while making an appeal to the government to save his son and bring him back safely.In the past also there have been incidents of Punjabi youths being victimised by their Saudi employers.Last year an incident of a Saudi employer refusing to pay the hospital bills of his employee Amritpal Singh, a resident of Gurdaspur, had surfaced after he was hit by a car driven by a Saudi national and died in hospital. AMRITSAR: Having fallen prey to the sinister designs of a greedy and fraudulent travel agent Rajinder Singh , a resident of Kotla Shahian village in Gurdaspur district, in a distress video message sent to his family back home has informed of not only being tortured by his Saudi employer but also denied food for past five days.“I am very upset, I haven’t eaten anything in past five days, I feel like hanging myself to death, please help me," says Rajinder while crying and wiping tears from his eyes in the video message.He further says that the travel agent, whom he had paid Rs 2 lakh, had betrayed him..