Earlier last week, Ismat Ara returned home and became a news headline of The Daily Star after she narrated inhuman torture by the wife of her master in Dubai.

Moyna Begum returned home yesterday failing to bear inhuman torture by the wife of her employer.

Misfortune continued to pursue her even in the home country and on her way to Munshiganj home from the Zia International Airport, she fell victim to a gang of 'ogyan party' who took away all of her belongings including 3,000 Dirham (equivalent to around Tk 28,000) and her passport after getting her drink water mixed with sedative at Satrasta in the capital.

Moyna had saved the money during her 14-month stay in Dubai.

Finding Moyna lying unconscious by a road in Satrasta, police took her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday morning, police posted at the hospital said.

As her husband, working at a decorator's at their village home of Rikabi Bazar in Munshiganj Sadar, found it hard to maintain their six-member family, Moyna went to Dubai spending Tk 60,000 with the hope of bringing solvency.

She could barely send back the amount she had spent for going to Dubai.

However, overwork along with torture made Moyna's life miserable in a foreign country.

The wife of her employer slapped or struck her with whatever she found on trifling grounds like delay in serving a glass of water.

"I had to go to bed at midnight and get up at 3:00am every day. If I fell asleep during work she [wife of her master] would beat me severely," Moyna told The Daily Star as she regained her consciousness yesterday afternoon.

She had to work for 21 hours a day as she worked in a 16-member family as a domestic help, she said, adding that her employer has sent her back as she was gradually losing the ability to work and lapses in her work became more frequent.

Physicians at the DMCH said it will take several hours more before Moyna could regain her full strength.