BHOPAL: The Khandwa police have rescued 17 bonded labourers from Maharashtra. These labourers were lured by promises of better wages but they were forced to work without any payment. Superintendent of police Navneet Bhasin informed that a complaint was filed in the police station Piploda that 17 persons, including minors, were being kept as bonded labourers in Maharashtra.
The police team from Khandwa raided district Belgaum of Maharashtra but the labourers were not found there. The team got a tip off that the labourers have been kept in village Satpal of district Beed of the state.
The police raided the village and rescued the 17 bonded labourers. All of them belong to Korku tribes, which is a protected tribe.
These tribes were lured by their own community member the accused Bansi Korku and Kamal Korku, one Ishak Khan lured them and took away them as a labours to Maharashtra. The police have arrested Ishak Khan and searching the other two into the matter.