Amol Nimbalkar said, “They put us in a cage, chained us like animals, took away our phones, made us work from 5 in the morning till midnight and then drugged us so that we wouldn’t ask for food or money ” phone, as he sat nervously beside a well near his home in Maharashtra’s Washim district.
This well reminded him of a similar well about 400 km away in Dhoki – a village in the arid and drought-prone district of Osmanabad., Even in Maharashtra.
Nimbalkar was 22 years old in Dhoki day laborerThey were allegedly taken hostage in inhumane conditions by the contractors and deputed to dig wells on private land.
On 20 June, the Osmanabad police busted the racket and rescued 11 labourers. Nimbalkar, who the quint Talked to, was one of them.
Subsequently, an FIR was lodged at Dhoki police station against seven persons under sections 370 (smuggling), 367 (kidnapping of minors), 345 (wrongful confinement), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 324 (causing hurt by using dangerous weapons) registered. , sections 504 (abetment), 506 (criminal intimidation), and 34 (act done by several persons with common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).