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Officers of revenue, police, labour and different departments rescued 4 persons moving arsenic bonded labourers astatine Lingadakoppa successful Kalaghatagi taluk of Dharwad territory connected Saturday.
Acting connected a tip-off, a squad comprising the tahasildar, constabulary and labour section officials raided a workplace belonging to 1 Basavaraj Kattimani successful Lingadakoppa colony of Kalaghatagi taluk and recovered the labourers.
The rescued workers are from Chindwara territory successful Madhya Pradesh and were hired for sugarcane harvesting successful Maharashtra by paying an beforehand of ₹5,000 each. From Maharashtra, they were allegedly brought to Lingadakoppa wherever they were forced to enactment arsenic workplace labourers.
The labourers complained to the officials that they were made to enactment continuously and not allowed to talk to their household members.
Officials registered a lawsuit nether the Bonded Labor System (Abolition) Act, 1976, against the accused Sanjay Kalerama Kavareti, a idiosyncratic from Madhya Pradesh, and Lakshman Sugreeva Jadhav, a idiosyncratic from Maharashtra, who reportedly brought them from MP.
Officials provided workers with impermanent shelter, food, aesculapian assistance and safety. The adjunct commissioner said they would beryllium provided assistance to scope their autochthonal village, by booking bid tickets. They volition transportation copies of the merchandise letters and documents to beryllium that they person received compensation.
Apart from officials from revenue, police, societal payment and labour departments, a squad from Belagavi-based Spandana NGO, besides helped rescue the labourers, said a release. eom
