Bhubaneswar: As many as 17 women labourers from Koraput district, who were allegedly held captive by their employers brick kiln in Telangana, have been released, an official of Koraput district administration said on Saturday.
Acting on media reports on the labourers enslaved at various brick kilns near Hyderbad in Telangana, Koraput collector K Sudarshan Chakraborty had directed the district police and labour officials to take immediate steps to rescue the labourers.
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. The rescued women were brought back to Koraput on Saturday,” the official said.
Sources said all the labourers are residents of Chuchukana and Piskadang villages under Laxmipur block in Koraput district. Two local contractors had lured them away to Telengana on the pretext of providing lucrative jobs.
Earlier on December 21, seven labourers from Odisha who were held captive at a brick kiln in Vizianagaram were rescued and brought back to Odisha.
Prior to this, five Odia labourers had managed to escape after the brick kiln owner allegedly threw acid and cut the finger of two labourers in Andhra Pradesh.
