16 Nepali Workers Held Captive in Indian Chicken Farm

MOHATTARI. 16 workers, including 10 men and six women from Bardibas Municipality in Mahottari district, have been held captive in a chicken farm in India.

The 16 workers from the Musahar settlement located in Bardibas Municipality-14 were held captive in a chicken farm in Helen village under Jhajhar police station in the Jin district of Haryana state, India. Mukesh, 17, Kisan, 16, Ashik, 13, Amrit, 21, his wife Kiran, 20, Jhari, 35, her wife Lalmuni, 34, daughters Kajal, 16, Sajana, 13, and son Shankar Sada, 9, from Bardibas-14 are among them. Bishundev, 38, his wife Mahawati, 35, son Amrit, 10, Mohan, 40, and his wife Becho Sada, 35, are also included, informed Gurupraasad Timilsina, Deputy Superintendent of Police at the Bardibas Area Police Office. Virendra Sada, Karicharan Sada, Ashok Sada, Amarlal Sada, and Manohar Sada from the Musahar settlement have submitted a request to the Nepali Embassy in New Delhi, the capital of India, seeking coordination and cooperation for their rescue, informed Gurupraasad Timilsina.

They were taken to a chicken farm in Helen village under Jhajhar police station in the Jin district of Haryana state, India, for employment on April 13 by Dilip Pariyar, a resident of Bardibas Municipality-3 Gauridanda, with the lure of attractive salary and service facilities and light work.

Kiran Sada, 20, among those held captive, told the police that they were kept under threat and torture by the owner, were not paid wages, and were held captive.