“That night, I was beaten black and blue in the house,” Ms.
Mendonca recalled. “This led us to suspect that it could be a case of human trafficking,” said Dr.
Shanbhag. In time the HRPF found out that Ms.
Mendonca had gone to Saudi on a visiting visa of 90 days. Ms.
Mendonca managed to contact her children in Mudrangady with the help of a driver. It was after the death of her husband last year that Ms.
Mendonca, looking for a job, came upon an advertisement for a home nurse for an Indian family in Qatar..