A boy who tried to stop middlemen from taking his mother to Kathmandu with the promise of sending her to Kuwait for foreign employment was severely beaten by the people whom he had opposed. Amrit Rai was thrashed by Rajesh BK, who had made all the necessary preparations to send Rai's mother Bhoj Kumari Rai, 39, to Kathmandu for a forward journey to Delhi. The Rais are extremely poor and live in a squatter settlement in Dharan 11. Agent BK reached Bhoj Kumari's home with a bus ticket to Kathmandu on Monday morning and told her that her Machine Readable Passport (MRP) was ready. Amrit, who learnt that his mother was being sent to Kuwait illegally, tore down the ticket and chased BK from his home. BK then attacked Amrit in the afternoon while he was on his way to his shop. Amrit had several bruises all over his body and deep wounds in his face following the beating. "Rajesh beat up my son as he tore down the ticket to Kathmandu and refused to let me go with him," Bhoj Kumari told the police in her complaint against BK. "Even I had told them that I wouldn't travel to Kuwait through Delhi illegally. But BK kept pressuring me to go with him." With the help of Paurakhi Nepal, the victim's family has lodged a complaint at the Area Police Office, Dharan. The police said they have already arrested BK on Monday and started investigations on the matter. Police suspect that the middlemen may have managed to get counterfeit citizenship certificate and MRP on Bhoj Kumari's name as the ticked her son tore down identified her as Kumari Limbu. Bhoj Kumari had met agent BK two weeks ago through her neighbor Kalpana Rai. She became mentally prepared to go to Kuwait after BK assured her that she would not have to spend money to go to Kuwait and could earn Rs 40,000 a month there. BK himself worked to prepare the MRP and Bhoj Kumari's medical report spending Rs 13,000. BK had sent Kalpana and Bhoj Kumari to Kathmandu on March 13 to send them to Kuwait. They were received by a woman named Puja Rai from Koteshwor, Kathmandu. Bhoj Kumari, who had toiled for two years in Oman a decade ago, insisted that she would go to Kuwait only through a direct flight. Puja assured her that she would be sent directly to Kuwait from Kathmandu. But four days later, Bhoj Kumari returned home as she did not believe Puja. According to Bhoj Kumari, BK has already sent five women to Kathmandu, who would be taken to New Delhi to be put on a flight to Kuwait.