Police in India are investigating allegations that a Saudi Arabian diplomat raped two Nepali maids at his home near the capital Delhi.
The women were rescued from the house in the suburb of Gurgaon on Monday after a tip-off from an NGO.
They say they were held captive by his family and starved and sexually abused by them and other Saudi nationals.
The Saudi embassy denied the charges. Police say the official has diplomatic immunity and is in the embassy.
They have registered a case of rape, sodomy and illegal confinement against the official, without naming him.
The two women, aged 30 and 50, were apparently lured away from Nepal with promises of fake jobs, The Hindu reports.