Saudi police has said that the 55-year-old Indian woman, whose right arm was severed, was suffering from “mental disturbances” and tried to flee her sponsor’s house.
Kasturi Munirathinam, who hails from Vellore in Tamil Nadu, is now stable after undergoing a series of surgeries and will soon leave the hospital.
The family of Munirathinam, who worked as a domestic help in Saudi Arabia, had alleged that her right arm was chopped off by her employer when she tried to escape harassment and torture. But the Saudi police has said her arm was amputated as a result of her fall from a residential building during her bid to escape.
Fawaz Al-Maimaan, Riyadh police’s spokesman, said that the case file of the maid was handed over to the Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution, and rejected reports in various media outlets about the employer’s role in the incident.
According to Al-Maimaan, the maid made a rope ladder out of ragged pieces of cloth in order to escape out of a window in her sponsor’s apartment on the third floor of the building. However, she lost balance and fell down, hitting the edge of an electricity generator located on the lower part of the house, which resulted in her arm being severed on the scene itself.
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