Just after 10 days of lodging a complaint with police about trafficking of seven persons to Jammu and Kashmir, again parents five more trafficked persons along with a social activist met District labour Officer (DlO), Rourkela, on Tuesday and Superintendent of Police (SP), Rourkela .
They informed him that apart from those seven trafficked persons, another five more persons were trafficked during the month of October 2017 and now are languishing in J&K. They requested the DlO, Rourkela to rescue the trafficked persons immediately.
Sources said Ganga lohar had trafficked a total of 17 persons of Sundargarh district to Jammu and Kashmir on October 10, 2017 and another three in the month of January, 2018 and only Ram lohar had managed to flee from his work place after facing torture.
According to sources, agent lohar had lured these innocent persons and sold them at Rs 50,000 each there. “We have come to know that 17 persons had been trafficked to Jammu and Kashmir by agent Ganga lohar during October 2017 and another 3 persons had been trafficked by him during January 2018. We have identified 12 persons till now and out of them only Ram lohar has managed to flee from his work place,” said activist Chandmani Sandil.
“We had informed to the police and the labour office about ten days back for rescue of the trafficked persons and had given them the name of six and today we have given to DlC, Rourkela in writing about trafficking of five more by the same agent. They have been identified as Soma Oram (25), Birsha Oram (25), Etwa Oram (38), Sanjit Oram (18) and Sambra Ekka (25)." Sandil informed.
“On the basis of their earlier complaint about trafficking of six persons, we have written to the labour Commissioner, Bhubaneswar, for their necessary action in this regard,” said DlO Renuprabha Patnaik.
“We will further write to the labour Commissioner about five more trafficked persons for their rescue,” Patnaik added.
Significantly, activist Sandil and parents of trafficked person had met Rourkela SP Uma Shankar Das about ten days back and requested him to take action and accordingly SP, Rourkela had written to the DlO, Rourkela, to take action in this regard.
The Rourkela police had also interrogated agent lohar on the basis of allegation against him.