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Nine Pilibhit residents trapped successful Kyrgyzstan for the past 3 months person returned location safely, officials said.
While the 9 returned connected Saturday (December 28, 2025), the remaining 3 are expected to instrumentality by December 30, arsenic their visas are valid until December 31, 2025, they said.
Pilibhit District Magistrate Gyanendra Singh told PTI that the process for the instrumentality of the remaining 3 workers was astir complete, and they would beryllium brought backmost earlier the twelvemonth end.
Gyanendra Singh besides appealed to everyone to beryllium vigilant against fraudsters.
All 12 men, who fell unfortunate to a scam, beryllium to Barkhera, Puranpur, Diyoria and Gajraula constabulary presumption areas of Pilibhit.
They were allegedly lured by the proprietor of a recruiting bureau successful Pilibhit metropolis with the committedness of jobs abroad, and paid Rs 2.5 lakh each to him to facilitate the question and the non-existent job.
The scam was unearthed with a video of Rohit, 1 of the 12 stranded successful Kyrgyzstan.
After the revelation connected December 5, his wife, Premvati, and the kin of respective much trapped successful the Central Asian state contacted the authorities.
Ravi Kumar, Ajay, Chandrapal, Santram, Rohit, Ramesh, Harswaroop, Shyamacharan, Sanjeev, Prempal, Ramasare, and Harishankar were reported to beryllium trapped successful antithetic cities of Kyrgyzstan for astir 3 months.
All of them were sent connected a 59-day visa with a fraudulent contract.
Upon reaching Kyrgyzstan, the men did not get the jobs arsenic promised and were allegedly held hostage and forced to enactment astatine a occupation they had not signed up for.
They uploaded videos connected societal media recounting their ordeal, complaining of beatings and not receiving their salaries, and appealed to the Indian authorities to assistance them instrumentality home.
Superintendent of Police Abhishek Yadav said helium has assigned the probe of the lawsuit to the Circle Officer (City).
Earlier, Union Minister Jitin Prasada met the victims' families successful Delhi and contacted the Indian Embassy to facilitate their return.
Farmer person Dev Swaroop Patel met the returning workers successful Bareilly connected Saturday.
Patel told PTI that tickets had not yet been arranged for Harishankar from Jironia village, Ramasre from Bhuda Pipariya village, and Shyam Charan from Baiju Nagar village.
Smiles returned to their families successful the villages erstwhile the workers returned.
They requested Prasada, the Pilibhit MP, to instrumentality strict enactment against those who cheated them and assistance them retrieve their money.
