Acting on a tip-off, a special team of the Pratapgarh police raided several places in Solapur to rescue the migrants, who were held captive and forced to work on sugarcane farms in prolonged and irregular shifts, Pratapgarh Superintendent of Police B. Aaditya said.
The action came after a complaint last year and a case was registered under section 420 (cheating) of IPC at police station crime branch from a woman who reported unauthorized deduction of Rs 69,953/- from her bank account.
Two contractual labourers died during the exploration of coal bed methane gas by a multinational oil & gas giant beside a small river about 10 km from Durgapur town this morning.
Tribhuvan Thakur and Gyani Verma, two migrant labourers were found dead inside a closed room in Bamunara Industrial zone within Kanksha Police Station limits of Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC).
At least three labourers were killed and one was severely injured after a large concrete slab of an under-construction bridge fell on them in Madhya Pradesh's Sehore on Monday.
An 'A-category' terrorist involved in the recent attack at a labour camp in Ganderbal where seven people were killed, was on Tuesday eliminated in an encounter with security forces in the Dachigam forest in Srinagar.
Labourers riding on a tractor- trolley were returning from work when their vehicle was hit hard from behind by a truck.
The three miners have been trapped since May 26 following a landslide in the Patkai hills located in the state's Tinsukia district.
Both the CITU and the INTTUC have said that they will start a major agitation on this issue soon.
Two labourers were killed, while two were hospitalised after petrol pump’s roof collapsed in Jalandhar’s Phillaur. The accident took place…
