"Indian workers return home to tell of low food supplies and unpaid wages,"

A group of about 50 Indian construction workers have returned home after not being paid wages for months and being forced to live by their employer in poor conditions with low food supplies.

The workers lived in Muscat for about a year and were not paid wages for at least three months. They had no money to buy food and had to subsist on dry rice meals.

They returned home in batches of 10 with the last group reaching India in January. Indian embassy officials worked with a voluntary group to obtain emergency exit papers for the workers and clear penalties for overstaying their visas. The workers had entered Oman on visit visas...

The men were promised 120 Omani rials (Dh1,100/$300) a month. But salaries were cut, payments were delayed and they were made to live in cramped accommodation with about 15 in small room...

With no money left to buy food, the workers reached out to Indian embassy officials in Muscat. They appealed for help on Twitter in October last year and posted a video message saying they were running out of food...