Police rescued 29 labourers of Balishankara block of Sundargarh district while they were being sent to Goa and arrested two brokers in this connection.
Source said that getting a tip-off on Thursday evening that some labourers were travelling in a bus to Bhubaneswar from where they would be taken to Goa, Sundargarh SP Dayanidhi Gachhayat asked his officers and labour officers to conduct raid.Sadar SDPO Prasant Mohanty, Sadar IIC Thakur Murmu, Talsara IIC Pradip Jena and AlO Bichitrananda Pattanaik intercepted the bus at Karamdihi, rescued the labourers and detained the brokers Mantu Sae of Talsara Barpali and Gajendra Bhoi of Mukundpur, Bargaon.
During interrogation, it was revealed that the labourers were heading for Goa in search of jobs. This is not the first such incident in the district.Despite being a minerals-rich district and many industries being located here, every year thousands of young men and women are going to other States in search of livelihoods and they are being ill-treated and tortured there.
The State Government is not taking any steps for creating jobs for local youths in industries and mines.