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8 men return home after three months of Malaysian ‘nightmare’

After three months of “torture” in Malaysia,due to poor living and working conditions,eight men from Punjab.

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After three months of “torture” in Malaysia,due to poor living and working conditions,eight men from Punjab,all in their mid-twenties and belonging to poor families,have finally returned home.

Lok Bhalai Party (LBP) chief and former Union minister Balwant Singh Ramoowalia presented them before the media here on Sunday. He said these men were sent to Malaysia on July 27 on the promise of jobs in a fruits packaging company. The eight men were instead sent to a cement manufacturing factory where they were given the task of packing cement and made to work in “inhuman conditions”.

“We would be given just a small bowl of rice to eat every day,and were locked in a room from where they would take us straight to the place of work and bring us back,” said Jagpreet Singh of Hoshiarpur district.

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Ramoowalia said while all these men had given Rs 1.5 lakh each to a Jalandhar-based travel agent,Vikram Kumar,whatever little cash they were carrying was snatched by the other “Tamil-speaking” travel agent,Joban Shankar,whom they met upon landing in Malaysia.

“Failing to cope with the living and working conditions,one of the youths managed to speak to his parents back home and they contacted me. I immediately got in touch with the Indian Embassy at Kuala Lumpur,which rescued these boys,” he added.

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