22 AP labour Sardars arrested at Kantabanji
SATURDAY, 19 NOVEMBER
2011 00:43 SUDHIR MISHRA | BALANGIR HITS: 10
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In a bid to streamline the migration process and put an end to
illegal migration from this district, under the direction of Balangir SP
Awinash Kumar a team of police personnel led by inspector Ranjan Pattnaik on
Thursday raided three hotels of Kantabnji town and arrested 22 Sardars (labour
contractors) of Andhra Pradesh, who had come to recruit labourers from the
district. Besides, three hotel owners of Kantabanji were taken to custody.
“We arrested the
contactors as they could not produce valid papers to recruit labourers from
this district. The Sardars showed letters of the Andhra Pradesh Government, but
they are not valid in Odisha. The labour contractors should have applied to the
Odisha Government through local District Labour Offices which had to be
approved by the Odisha Government. After getting approval, they would be
eligible to take labourers from Odisha,” said Inspector Ranjan Pattnaik.
The contractors and
hoteliers have been booked under various Sections of IPC including 367
(kidnapping and confining as slaves) 368, 371 (dealing humans as slaves) and
120(b) (conspiracy) and Section 14 of the Sarai ACT of 1967 and Section 4 of
the Hotel and Establishment Act of 1956, Pattnaik said
“During our raids, we
found that a majority of hotel owners were not keeping ID proof of occupants,”
he pointed out further. All the arrested persons were forwarded to court on
Friday.
The arrest of the
labour contractors at took a new turn in the evening as several Congress
workers, led by their party’s Kantabanji MLA Santosh Singh Saluja, gheraoed the
local police station demanding release of the arrested persons. The police
resorted to mild lathi-charge to disperse the crowd.
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