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Gurgaon/New Delhi:  The alleged gang-rape and torture of two Nepalese women at a Saudi Arabian official’s home in Gurgaon presents a diplomatic bind for India.

 Saudi Arabian officials arrived at the foreign ministry office this afternoon to discuss the case. The Nepal government is pressuring India to take action against the Saudi diplomat, say sources, but New Delhi can do little as the official enjoys immunity.

 Sources say the foreign ministry, which has received a report from the police on the case, can ask Saudi Arabia to waive its official’s immunity and if that request is denied, then the official can be expelled.

 The police report to the foreign ministry includes the statement of the two women, who have returned to Nepal after testifying before a magistrate.

 "I believe that we have carried out a quick, transparent and scientific investigation. The finer details of investigation cannot be revealed at this stage as the matter is sensitive and may affect the relations between two nations," said Gurgaon police chief Navdeep Singh Virk.

In the FIR, which does not mention the diplomat’s name but only "Saudi Arab Ke Admi (people from Saudi Arabia)", the women have given the police a disturbing account of gang-rape, torture and slavery.

 "We were treated like animals," said the older of the two women.

 The women had been working with the family as domestic helps for four months. They allege that they were raped and tortured by different men who visited the house.

 "They are a family of 6...The mother and older daughter would beat us. They used to be sent outside and then the men would rape us. We would scream and cry, then they used knives," said one of the women.

 "They raped us, kept us locked up, did not give us anything to eat," she told NDTV.
 
 The other woman, 30, said she was stripped, raped and sodomised by "a lot of men who would keep coming to the flat, whose language we never understood."

 The Saudi Arabian embassy, which has denied the allegations as false and unproven, has lodged a protest with India on the "police intrusion into a diplomat’s house against all diplomatic conventions."