Suspecting foul play in her husband’s death in Dubai, a young woman has appealed to the Collector and the Superintendent of Police to help unravel the mystery shrouding his death and secure the body.
Accompanied by her aged in-laws, M. Easwari (26) came here on Friday with her daughters Niranjana Devi (10) and Jayadarshini (8) and submitted petitions to Collector K. Nanthakumar and SP N.M. Mylvahanan, seeking their help to bring to book those who were behind the murder of her husband.
In her petition, she said her husband T. Muthukumar of Meesal village in Mudukulathur taluk had gone to Dubai to work in a private company in December last and a local travel agent, who had arranged for his travel, informed her on Thursday afternoon that her husband had died.
She suspected foul play as her husband, a school dropout, had been complaining of harassment by co-workers and feared for his life. He wanted the local agent to arrange for his return, but the agent, who had received Rs. 80,000 to send him abroad refused to take up the issue with the employer in Dubai, she said.
Muthukumar last spoke to her on Wednesday night and asked her to immediately arrange for his return. “My husband sounded very scared and feared he would be killed,” Easwari said. The agent could not be contacted again to confirm about Muthukumar’s death but a co-worker had called her nephew on Friday morning and said he had seen Muthukumar lying dead in his room, she said.
She appealed to the Collector to take up her case with the government and help her get some compensation from her husband’s employer and to the government to educate her daughters, studying standard V and standard III. After going to Dubai, Muthukumar had sent money twice, Rs. 1,700 on the first occasion and Rs. 6,000 recently, she added.
