Overview

• The youths were brought from various districts of Nepal to Kashipur on promises of work and coerced into selling products for Lead Vision Trading India Pvt Ltd.
• The Embassy of Nepal was alerted on June 19 by its Delhi official and coordinated with KIN India and Uttarakhand Police to carry out the June 21 operation.
• Survivors described daily beatings and death threats when they resisted forced sales under duress.
• Police arrested three local accomplices—Maharaj Singh alias Pappu, Sachin Kumar and Manish Tiwari—and charged them under multiple Indian Penal Code sections and the Juvenile Justice Act.
• Investigators are now scrutinizing Chetan Handa, a founding director of Lead Vision Trading, over allegations he orchestrated the trafficking network.