Parents, husband of deceased nurse Hazel Mathias demand justice

Udupi: Since there are suspicions regarding the death of Shirva based nurse Hazel Jyotsna Mathias, her parents Robert Quadros, Helen Quadros, younger brother Ryan Quadros and husband Ashwin Mathais have approached president of human rights foundation Ravindranath Shanbhog for justice.

Udupi deputy commissioner has appointed Ravindranath Shanbhog as nodal officer to provide legal advice and guidance to Hazel’s parents as they are illiterate and lack legal knowledge.

On Saturday 13^th, Ravindranath Shanbhog spoke in a news conference and said that the post-mortem and police reports sent by Saudi Arabia government were found with the coffin.

“The documents were seen after four days of performing her last rites. No other documents were found. But as per sources, Hazel in her death note had made a mention of the name of her colleague who was arrested and released recently,” he said.

“A letter has been written to Consular General of India, Sanjay Kumar Sharma, to provide suitable documents and the external affairs ministry also is requested to help in this connection. Sanjay Kumar Sharma had received documents relating to Hazel from Saudi Arabian embassy. However parents of Hazel Jyotsna have received none of those documents. Dr Bandar Saleh Al Jahrani and police in Saudi have issued a suspicious report that Hazel might have been strangled or hanged to death,” he said.

“Therefore, Sanjay Kumar has been requested to obtain personal diary of Hazel, death note written by Hazel, her employment letter and employment agreement signed by her, insurance details, chargesheet, post-mortem report, inquest report and details of progress in the case,” he informed.

“If necessary details are received in a week and if the parents of Hazel are convinced with it, the case will not be pursued further. If not, a petition will be submitted to the court requesting for second post-mortem of the body,” said Mr Shanbhog.

“If the case has to be pursued in Saudi Arabia, they need to obtain details of lawyer there. Hazel should be paid six year’s gratuity and insurance for having worked for six years. There is scope for second post-mortem and I will provide legal help if the parents desire,” he added.

Robert Quadros, fatehr of Hazel said that his daughter would never opt for a drastic step such as suicide. Let them provide the documents requested by us. We will give up the case if we are satisfied with them. Otherwise we will think of further legal fight, he said.

It was revealed during the press meet, that Hazel’s husband had received a phone call from NRI Forum, Bengaluru assuring a help of Rs 1 lakh.