Police rescue 52 people from bonded labour in Hassan

Mysore | Tuesday | 18th December, 2018

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They would be given nothing in the interim period,” said Ratnamma.The rescued labourers are being housed at the Morarji Desai School in MD Hosur. Those rescued had been brought to the plantation in Dudda hobli, and been forced to work in extremely poor conditions. Those running the farm allegedly restricted the movement of the labourers inside the farm, and housed them in temporary sheds, besides subjecting them to torture . The rescued labourers were subsequently housed in a school nearby on Monday morning.The plight of the labourers came to light after one labourer, 50, a native of Chikkamagaluru went missing from his home. While the cops went on the 50-year-old man’s trail, the son started searching for his father in parallel..