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While two Orissa youths managed to escape from the clutches of a human trafficking racket in Malaysia, kin of those still stuck there have appealed to the government to intervene.
Kendrapara (Orissa), June 10 : While two Orissa youths managed to escape from the clutches of a human trafficking racket in Malaysia, kin of those still stuck there have appealed to the government to intervene.
Kailash Behra, whose relatives have become victims of human trafficking, said the authorities should secure their release.
He said: "We are helpless. We want our boys to come back. We have requested the administration to do something about it. If they will not do something about it soon, we will stage protest".
"Our brothers (in Malaysia) are being tortured by their employers. They get meals only once a day and are made to work for more then 12 hours a day," Behra added.
A Bhubaneswar-based placement agency lured seven youths of Kendrapara District's Mangalpur and Raghunathpur villages with an offer of lucrative job at Omega Wood Industry in Kuala Lumpur.
The youths also paid the placement agency over 100,000 rupees for a job in Malaysia.
The moment they landed in Kuala Lumpur on January 10, their passports and visas were snatched by a member of the placement agency.
They were then taken to the jungles. But instead of getting an office job, they were forced to do physical labour and were kept in inhuman conditions.
Meanwhile, the Kendrapara District administration has said that they are inquiring into the matter.
Kashinath Sahu, Collector of the Kendrapara District, said: "An official has been deputed to the Block area to assess the situation -- to find out the exact location of the people and to procure information from the concerned family -- so that the Orissa Government can give its report to the Centre".
Two of the youths -- Manoj Mallick and Manguli Jena -- managed to escape on March 10 and were deported with help of the Indian High Commission.
Mallick, 28, cannot forget the three months he spent in Malaysia.
He said: "In Malaysia we were harassed and tortured. The person, who took us there, flew away. I managed to escape from there somehow and came back to India".
ANI