The Khariar police on Wednesday rescued 27 migrant labourers from the village Badadohel of Khariar block. Seven of these labourers are women and 12 children.
It is learnt that a labour contractor was taking these labourers to Andhra Pradesh but fled from the place before the arrival of the police. The labourers belong to Manjar village of Golamunda block in Kalahandi district.The labourers were brought to the police station. “We will hand over the labourers to the labour Officer after completing all the formalities,” said Khariar PS IIC Jaykumar Pattnaik.Though the labourers were said to have taken advance from the labour contractor to work in brick kilns in Andhra Pradesh, they denied having been paid any advance money.“The children are not enrolled in any school. They usually go with us to worksites,” the labourers said.