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A full of 49 bonded labourers, including 41 adults and 8 children from Chhattisgarh, were rescued from a gaushala successful Uthukottai by Tiruvallur territory authorities connected Monday.
According to officials, the workers had been recruited to Gokul Krishna gaushala located successful Devandavakkam colony successful Uthukottai taluk with the committedness of regular wages of ₹400 for men and ₹300 for women. They arrived astatine the gaushala connected May 5 and were allegedly made to enactment for 12 hours a time without receiving immoderate wages. The workers were besides said to beryllium physically assaulted and denied capable aesculapian care.
When the workers informed the proprietor that they nary longer wished to enactment astatine the workplace and requested outgo of their pending wages earlier returning to their autochthonal place, the proprietor allegedly refused. He reportedly told them that helium would not wage them immoderate wealth and threatened to record theft complaints against them if they attempted to leave.
Fearing further harassment, the workers escaped from the gaushala without the owner’s cognition and sought refuge astatine the constabulary station.
Following the complaint, officials from the Revenue Department, Labour Department, and constabulary conducted an inspection astatine the gaushala. During the inquiry, it was recovered that astir 1,500 cattle were being maintained astatine the installation and that workers had been employed to attraction for the animals, cleanable cattle sheds, and execute different duties.
Tiruvallur Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) Ravichandran said that proceedings person been initiated nether the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, and they person issued merchandise certificates to each the rescued persons. They volition beryllium sent backmost to their autochthonal places, and the authorities has credited ₹30,000 arsenic alleviation assistance to the slope relationship of each rescued person.
