Acting on a tipoff, a team of special police squad from Balangir along with their Kantababji counterparts conducted raid in a bushy forest and rescued 302 labourers.
These labourers were being taken to the brick kilns of Hyderabad and Telangana. The rescued migrant labourers belong to Balangir, Subarnapur and Nuapada districts. Three persons were arrested for taking the workers there.
This was announced by Balangir SP K Siva Subramani here. The Kantabanji police have registered a case under Sections 374/420/34IPC and Section 25 of Inter State Migrant Workman Act 1979.
“So far we have rescued 462 migrant labourers and arrested 18 in the district,” said the SP further.