We were told by agent, this man from Saudi Arab is very nice,we'll be given good facilities: Gurgaon incident victim pic.twitter.com/iNWJuoBIs1 — ANI (@ANI_news) September 9, 2015

#BREAKING A Saudi diplomat who was booked for allegedly raping two Nepali women claims diplomatic immunity https://t.co/mG84pv7CYE — TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) September 9, 2015

GURGAON: Two Nepalese women have accused a Saudi Arabian, who works in the embassy, of confining them in his upscale flat in Gurgaon, torturing and starving them, and raping them repeatedly. They worked as domestic helps in his house for the past four months. They were rescued on Monday night by a police team which was tipped off by an NGO. The FIR lodged at DLF-II police station on Tuesday mentions gang rape, sodomy and wrongful confinement. Police have not named the Saudi in the FIR as he possibly enjoys diplomatic immunity, which means cops can’t arrest him.Only after the police file their chargesheet can the government ask the Saudis to waive his immunity. But Indians will have no legal recourse if the Saudis choose a diplomatic solution and put him on a flight to Riyadh.An agency report quoted the Saudi embassy as saying the charges were "completely false" and "contrary to facts in our possession". It also said it would wait for the Indian government to clarify the matter according to diplomatic norms. A Saudi embassy official also disapproved of the way police was damaging a person and country’s reputation on the basis of mere charges made by a third person and said it was violative of the rights of the diplomat and his family.An NGO, Maiti-India, alerted the Gurgaon Police about the plight of the two Nepalese, following a tip-off by a third Nepalese domestic help who managed to flee some 10 days ago from the Saudi official’s flat in a premium residential complex behind Ambience Mall. She worked there for only three days, and while fleeing left her mobile phone behind to help out the other two. This proved a lifeline for them."The girl, who managed to flee from the Saudi official’s house, informed us about their ordeal and we got in touch with the two through the mobile phone left behind by her," Bal Krishna Pandey, the president of Maiti-India, told TOI."We informed the Nepalese embassy first and reached the flat with a team of Gurgaon police late on Monday. As soon as we rang the doorbell, a woman opened the door and got into a heated argument with the woman cop. We also found the two Nepalese were being thrashed by the family at that time. The cops managed to rescue them," Pandey said.The two were taken to a hospital where a medical examination confirmed sexual assault, the police said. One of the victims told the police that after she got her passport from Kathmandu around four months ago, one Kalpana, who was known to her, sent her to Delhi with a man called Anwar to get her the job of a domestic help. In Delhi, Anwar sent her and another woman (also from Nepal) to the Saudi’s flat in Gurgaon to work as domestic helps.A month or so back, the Saudi took the two to Jeddah where they were forced to work in a hotel. But things started going horribly wrong after they returned to Gurgaon a couple of weeks ago. The two claimed that not only did the Saudi start thrashing them but also raped them repeatedly, sometimes at knifepoint. The two also told the police that on a few occasions, the Saudi’s friends, who used to come to the flat for body massage, also raped them."We have deputedDhaarna Yadav (ACP-Sadar) is the special investigation officer. Statements of the two were recorded in a city court on Tuesday and investigation is going on," said Rajesh Kumar, ACP (crime), Gurgaon.An FIR has been registered under sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 342 (wrongful confinement), 376-2 (intercourse with woman in custody), 376-D (gangrape), 377 (sodomy), 506 (threatening to kill), and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC at DLF-II police station, Kumar added.Commissioner of police Navdeep Singh Virk said the police have written to the home ministry and Embassy of Saudi Arabia to verify if the accused enjoys diplomatic immunity or not. In case, he has diplomatic immunity, investigations will be carried out according to the directions of ministry of external affairs.