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Twin toddlers land up in grandparents' hands

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Their parents have been languishing in Saudi jail since July 7

NEDUMBASSERY: Mariyakutty could hardly control her emotions on seeing her 19-month-old grandchildren; she ran to take them, hugged and kissed them even as the toddlers felt the warmth, love and tears of their grandmother for the first time.

Such were the emotional scenes witnessed at the Cochin International Airport on Tuesday morning on the union of the twin toddlers with their grandparents that it would have melted even the most callous hearts.

Kesiya Roy and Albert Roy had been living away from their parents for the past 52 days. Roy, hailing from Elanji, had been working as a draftsman with Binladin Group, and wife, Biji, hailing from Kizhakkambalam, had been serving as a staff nurse at King Khalid University Hospital, when they were detained by the Saudi Police in Riyadh on July 7 after a Nepalese woman they had employed as a servant was found dead under suspicious circumstances. Roy's friends looked after the toddlers since then.

Reportedly, the couple hired the woman unaware of her antecedents. She had run away from her previous employers before taking up the job with them. It has now turned out that she was not having a valid passport, Biju, Roy's brother-in-law, said. She was given the job on the assumption that she was a legal immigrant, he said. The maid then fled the couple, and was found dead on the morning of July 7.

The investigation into the death is still on. According to the Indian Embassy officials, nothing could be done before the investigation is completed, Biju told the media persons. He said that the police established contact with the couple through the mobile phone, which the deceased had allegedly stolen from their apartment.

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