A day after 29 labourers were rescued from the clutches of two brokers who were taking them to Goa, the Sundargarh police rescued another 12 youths from Sundargarh Sadar Chowk on Friday evening.
The police also arrested two brokers and three agents of Goa in this connection and forwarded them to court on Saturday afternoon. The cops handed over all the youths to their parents in the presence of district Assistant labour Officer BN Patnaik.
Acting on a tipoff, district SP Dayanidhi Gochhayat directed Sadar SDPO Prasant Mohanty to nab the three agents from Goa, who had come to take the youths to engage them as labourers in Goa.
SDPO Mohanty and Sadar Police station IIC Thakur Das Murmu intercepted a four-wheeler vehicle and rescued the youths and detained the five culprits, including the two brokers, Basant Majhi and Mahindra Majhi.
During interrogation, it was revealed that the youths would have been taken to Goa by train from Jharsuguda.