In Qatar, Nepali businessman Lokendra Bahadur Karki has filed a case (notice) with the local special police against nine Nepali female workers who had filed a complaint against him at the Nepali Embassy, ​​claiming that they had run away from the company.

In Qatar, there is a system where the employer company informs the local police that the workers in its sponsor (kafala) have left, and the workers lose their residence permit and are automatically deprived of their rights as workers.

Karki, the operator of Amaaz Sign Training and Contracting Company and Spear Five Services Company, which supply workers, has informed the 'Search and Follow-up Department', which controls and monitors migrant workers in Qatar, that 9 female workers have left their company. 'Lokendra has not paid the salaries and service facilities to the 9 women he brought from Nepal. He has beaten the women. The women who were victims had come to the Nepali Embassy against him,' Nepali Embassy Labor Counselor Sita Dawadi told Kantipur, 'When the victim women came to the embassy, ​​Karki had filed a case with the local agency saying that they had run away.'

The women were brought to Qatar through Karki's own manpower company, KP International. They paid up to three hundred thousand rupees to the manpower company to go to Qatar for employment. They have not received their salaries for one to five months. They were brought to work as cleaners with a salary of one thousand Qatari riyals.

Karki has even locked the room reserved for female workers and has made them uncontactable. The victim said that all her clothes were in the room. 'When we came to the embassy, ​​there was no place to go back. Our room was locked. We were not able to take out any belongings. We haven't been able to change our clothes for three days," a victim told Kantipur.

There is no shelter for women at the embassy. The Nepali Women's Society has arranged temporary accommodation for them. Labor Councilor Dawadi said that coordination is being done with Qatari agencies to provide them justice. "Efforts are being made to remove the case filed against them for running away. After removing it, we will discuss with the labor department here to get their salaries," said Dawadi.

Nepali organizations have repeatedly demanded that the embassy take legal action against businessman Karki, alleging that he has exploited and tortured workers. Karki had previously also been putting the workers he brought in in trouble. The organizations are demanding that he stop the demand letter he used to take to the embassy to bring workers.