Vasundhara Oswal the 26-year-old daughter of Indian-origin billionaire Pankaj Oswal jailed for the kidnapping and murder of her fathers former employee in Uganda who was later found alive has alleged that her basic human rights grossly violated during her three-week long incarceration in a Ugandan prison. The traumatized woman revealed that on several occasions she was not even allowed to use the washroom as some sort of punishment. I was detained for five days and thrown in prison for another two weeks. My human rights were grossly violated. They didnt let me take a shower and denied me food and water. My parents had to bribe police officers through lawyers to bring me food water and basic necessities Vasundhara who was released on October 24 last year told news agency PTI in an interview. Who is Vasundhara Oswal? Born in 1999 Vasundhara Oswal is the elder daughter of Oswal Groups Pankaj Oswal and Radhika Oswal. Vasundhara who was been brought up brought in India Australia and Switzerland has bachelors degree in finance from a reputed Swiss university and serves as the executive director of PRO Industries PTE Ltd Africas leading state-of-the-art ethanol production firm which is a subsidiary of the Oswal Group. Vasundhara Oswal has won several accolades for her contributions in the business space including the 2023 Global Youth Icon Award. Why was Vasundhara Oswal arrested? On October 1 2024 Vasundhara Oswal was visiting an Extra-Neutral Alcohol (ENA) plant owned by PRO Industries PTE Ltd -- a subsidiary of the Oswal Global Group operating in Uganda-- when armed personnel who claimed to be law enforcement officers detained her allegedly without a warrant and any formal charges. The billionaire heiress was  falsely charged with the kidnapping and murder of Mukesh Menaria -- a former employee of her father Pankaj Oswal -- who was later found alive in Tanzania. Arrested without warrant denied legal representation Vasundhara spent three weeks in jail before being granted bail on October 21 2024. She claimed that the Ugandan police searched her premises without a warrant. When I asked them to present a search warrant they said We are in Uganda we can do anything youre not in Europe anymore. They then forced me to go to Interpol with them on the pretext of meeting their director. When I didnt want to do it the same day a male officer picked me up and threw me inside their van she alleged. She also alleged the Ugandan police forced her to give a statement without a criminal lawyer. We had a civil lawyer because they didnt give us time as they said that if I didnt give a statement then I would be held indefinitely she said. Illegally detained denied police bond after payment Vasundhara revealed that after giving her statement she was asked to $30000 and present her passport for a police bond. However even after paying the money and submitting the required documents she was denied a police bond and thrown back in the cell. According to Vasundhara she was illegally detained for 72 hours even after her lawyers secured an an unconditional release order from the courts. Later she was informed that she was being charged with kidnapping and attempt to murder and was taken to a lower-level magistrate court instead of a high court. Narrating her ordeal behind the bars Vasundhara Oswal said she was lodged in a prison for persons arrested for petty crimes and later shifted to a facility housing convicted murderers and human traffickers. I spent the next two weeks in Nakasongola prison. And even after they found that the man (Menaria) was alive they proceeded to keep me in prison on those charges. They found him on October 10 a week or two before I got bail she said. Uganda Police extorted money from my family Vasundhara said that the Uganda Police kept the charges on her though Menaria was found alive and later reduced the charge to misdemeanor confinement after extorting money from her family. This was done basically to keep something on our heads and extort more money because the Uganda polices biggest mistake was that they didnt investigate the matter properly she said. Vasundhara said she wants the Ugandan government to correct its mistakes. I feel like the other governments have already automatically corrected their mistakes and they have used the law correctly not in a manipulative manner to get what they want. So this is more up to the Ugandan government to correct its mistakes towards an investor who has spent the last three years in their country building their business she said. The case against Vasundhara was dismissed on December 19 2024. (With PTI inputs)