Maid’s Family Paid Blood Money 24 Years After Fatal Accident - Workers/Saudi Arabia/Sri Lanka
Mohammed Rasooldeen; 20/2/08
A traffic court in Al-Kharj ordered Sunday to pay the blood money of a Lankan maid who died in a car accident 24 years ago. The delay was due to the case filed being misplaced for years. Traffic Court judge Kalaf Al-Mutlaq ordered Fahd Al-Qahtani, a Saudi schoolteacher, to pay SR25,000 to the next of kin of V.M. Indrawathie, who died when she was 30 years old in a car accident in Al-Kharj, 60 km from Riyadh. According to the police report, the accident had taken place on Aug. 11, 1984, when Al-Qahtani, who was 17 years old at the time, crashed his car into another vehicle after he swerved into the wrong side of the road.
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