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Rayagada: Police rescued at least 17 migrant labourers from Rayagada Railway Station while they were being transported to Tamil Nadu here today. The rescued labourers include 11 minors.
The labourers are from Baharkutumi, Andrakanch and Kucheipadar villages under Kashipur block of the Rayagada district.
A joint team of Government Railway Police (GRP) and district Childline officials headed by SI Gajendra Pradhan, conducted the raid at the railway station this morning, after the former received a complaint on the migrant labourer trafficking by a local broker, last night. The labourers were rescued while waiting at the railway station to board the Bokaro-Madras Express.
“We received a complaint on the migrant labourer trafficking at around 10 PM last night. In the complaint, one Narendra Nayak of Kashipur block alleged that a local labourer broker Santosh Benia was sending her sister to Tamil Nadu along with 16 others to work in a thread mill as migrant labourer and shout police’s intervention. The complainant also claimed that her sister was being sent without the consent of her family,” said Pradhan.
“The labourers were being trafficked to Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu to be engaged in the Hindustan Thread Mill,” he added.
The rescued labourers have been handed over to the Rayagada Childline officials.
Ms Kalinga