AMN/ WEB DESK
30 bonded labourers in Punjab have been rescued by joint teams of Punjab and Bihar Police along with the members of an NGO, Bachapan Bachao Andolan. These include three minor girls and seven women. The victims were forced into bonded labour in a Kapurthala-based potato farm for long hours on meager emoluments. They were also allegedly mistreated by the contractor.
According to Police sources, those rescued include eight from Nepal and 22 from the Sitamarhi district of Bihar. The minors are aged between 12 and 16 years. Two contractors from Bihar, who brought the victims to Kapurthala and held them captive, are absconding. The rescue operation was conducted after an FIR was registered by the parents of one of the minors in the district Sitamarhi police station.