Faulty biz deal lands NRI on streets

May 14, 2013

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Dubai: A deperate father Mohammad Sikandar Samrat and his three-year-old daughter Sara in Bahrain have been forced to live in a mosque, park, and car since November 2012 following a faulty business deal.
He is yet to get 65,000 Bahraini dinars owed to him by a Bahraini businessman, the Gulf Daily News reported on Monday.
Samrat was forced out in the open after his wife and their youngest daughter left for India in November last year.
“This has been going on for the last six months when I was forced to send my family home after I could no longer cope,” Samrat told the newspaper in a park where the two are currently taking shelter.
Samrat said that he was running a business for the Bahraini businessman getting marble and stone supplies from India. But things changed in 2009.
“When I went to the gentleman to ask for money, he gave me seven cheques worth BD40,000 — all of which bounced. He promised to pay me the money in instalments, but that never happened as well.” he said.
He also could not apply for his daughter’s passport when she was born in 2010 as he had no money for that. He is now pleading with authorities to allow his daughter to return home. An official in the embassy is reported to have ensured that everything would be done to help the stranded Indian duo.

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