17 Odia women labourers rescued from Telangana

Bhubaneswar,Dec 29:After three months of being held captive, 17 women labourers from Koraput district were finally rescued from a brick kiln in Telangana on Friday.

Acting on media reports on the labourers enslaved at various brick kilns near Hyderabad in Telangana, Koraput Collector               K Sudershan Chakraborty and SP had directed the district police and labour officials to take immediate steps to rescue the labourers. Later, a five-member team of Laxmipur police and district labour office left for Telangana on Tuesday.

The team rescued all women labourers from a brick kiln, around 100 km away from Hyderabad in Telangana on Friday.

According to the sources, all the labourers are residents of Chuchukana and Piskadang villages under Laxmipur block in Koraput district. Two contracters had lured the labourers on the pretext of providing lucrative jobs.