705 MIGRANT LABOURERS
RESCUED IN BALANGIR
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Acting on a tipoff, a team of the Titiligrah police led by DSP
Dilip Purohit along with Titilagarh Sub-Collector Kailash Sahu and labour
officials rescued as many as 705 migrant labourers, including 193 children
(below 14years of age), from the Bilaspur-Tirupati Express train at the
Titilagarh railway station in Balangir district on Tuesday evening.
The labourers, who were being sent to work in brick kilns of Tamil
Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, mostly belong to different areas of Balangir,
Kalahandi and Nuapada districts, said a police official.
The rescued labourers were sent back to their homes and eight
middlemen were detained in this connection, informed a labour official to this
correspondent over phone.
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