The body of an Indian worker has been stuck in the mortuary for 19 days...Hari Shankar Singh had been working with Legend Project General Contracting LLC in Abu Dhabi for the last two years...not been paid for the past few months.

"With no money in hand, Singh was tensed. He was unwell and wanted to return home. He asked for his passport from the company but it was denied. And on July 20 at about 10.10pm, he suffered a heart attack. We called the emergency services who said that he had died. Then the police and the CBI too came," Brijesh Tiwary, his colleague, told Khaleej Times.

Kumar [Dinesh Kumar, first secretary (Community Affairs) at the India Embassy] added that in such cases the company or the sponsor should play an active role but in this particular case the company was not cooperating at all...has not paid a dirham to help with the repatriation process and all efforts by this newspaper to contact the company have proven futile...[the company] released a No Objection Certificate for the body to be flown out of the country.