Sri Lankan family accepts blood money

The family of a Sri Lankan maid murdered in Saudi Arabia has agreed to pardon her killer and accept SR 50,000 in blood money, the Sri Lankan Embassy in Riyadh announced on Tuesday.

Pavani Devi Sinnaiyah, 36, who was working in Qurayat in Al-Jouf province, was killed by her Saudi sponsor on January 19. Her remains were repatriated home early this month.

Although her sponsor claimed that she died under mysterious circumstances, following investigations the police arrested him as a suspect. After an autopsy on Sinnaiyah's body, the police confirmed it was a case of homicide. Sinnaiyah, who was unmarried, came to the Kingdom in 2008 from Maskeliya. "We negotiated the blood money on behalf of Sinnaiyah's family. "The father of the killer agreed to an SR 50,000 as an out-of-court settlement," an embassy official told Arab News on Tuesday.

Courtesy: Arab News