By TCN Staff Reporter,
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| Faisal used to work as chef on Costa Classica Cruise ship |
If you get in trouble while staying abroad, don’t think that you will get help from Indian embassy officials. At least that was what came to light two weeks ago from the completely inhuman response of the Indian embassy officials to the incident of death of an Indian living in Bangkok.
Faisal, a resident of Patna died reportedly in an assault. His family members claimed that he was murdered but Bangkok police was hostile when they wanted to register a complaint against the unidentified individuals.
What accentuated the tragedy of Faisal’s family was the response of the Indian Embassy officials. When Jamal Ashraf, Faisal’s brother, approached the Indian embassy officials in Bangkok to get any help as he was a complete stranger there, they allegedly didn’t respond at all.
Faisal, who was working with Costa Classica Cruise Ship as a Chef, and was expected to be with his family members on 6th December 2010, was attacked by three unidentified Thai nationals on 1st December. Because of serious brain injuries he was admitted in the local hospital in Bangkok and after passing three days on ventilator, Faisal died.
What appeared very shocking to Jamal was that no Indian embassy officials ever contacted him in spite of knowing about his case. This was in the context when Jamal had to deal with not only with his brother’s death but also the local Thai procedures without any help from the concerned Indian officials.
The height of insensitivity was when in order to take the dead body of his brother to India, Jamal went to the Indian embassy to take the documents; the concerned embassy officials didn’t want to meet him on the pretext of a meeting.
It was only when Jamal tried some connection in United Nations that the concerned officials responded and came to meet him. Jamal raised a bigger question which didn’t relate to only the unfortunate incident of Faisal’s death but with the larger issue of security of Indians living abroad.
“Is the job of the Indian embassy just to issue Visa? Isn’t the Indian embassy responsible for the security of the fellow Indians in that particular country?” asked Jamal.
The question arising out of the whole tragedy is that, shouldn’t the embassy officials have helped Faisal’s family in such a case of emergency? If yes then when will the concerned guilty officers be punished?
Jamal has now decided to file a complaint in the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi against the apathetic behavior of the concerned Indian embassy officials in Bangkok.
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