A Swiss court on Friday found them guilty of providing unauthorised employment, giving meagre health benefits and paying low wages to the workers.
Four members of the United Kingdom’s billionaire Hinduja family were sentenced to prison terms ranging from four to four-and-a-half years by a Swiss court for exploiting their Indian domestic workers, the Associated Press reported.
They were, however, not found guilty of human trafficking by the court as the prosecution had alleged.
The court found that the four members – Prakash Hinduja and his wife Kamal, and their son Ajay and daughter-in-law Namrata – guilty of providing unauthorised employment, giving meagre health, if any, benefits and paying wages that were less than one-tenth the pay for such jobs in Switzerland, reported AP.
The court also sentenced Najib Ziazi, the family’s business manager, a jail term of 18 months.
According to the prosecutors, the domestic workers alleged that Kamal Hinduja had constituted a “climate of fear”.
