“After the Sudanese embassy refused to provide any help to her family, they enquired about the cost of taking her back to Sudan. But the cost was around Rs 2-3 lakh, which they found very steep and so decided to perform Jowahir’s last rites in Mumbai,” said Sagar Patil, senior clerk, Rajaram Bapu Institute of Technology (RBIT), Sangli, from where Abdullah had completed her civil engineering course. He further added the embassy “did not respond to our request and is not even bearing her medical expenses, so we paid her hospital bills as she was our student and guest. The embassy did not even respond to our requests to help their own citizen,” said Patil.