INDIA’S government demanded justice yesterday after an Indian maid working in Saudi Arabia had her right arm severed by her employer.

Kasthury Munirathnam from Tamil Nadu is in a serious condition in hospital after her boss maimed her in revenge for revealing the slavery-like conditions in which she was kept.

Her sister Vijayakumari said the mother of four “was forced to take up the job abroad as the family was facing financial problems after the marriage of her three daughters.” She said the employer had subjected her sister to mental and physical torture and refused to pay or even feed her.