Overview
- The Jharkhand Labour Department says it has reached the workers through the Indian embassy in Tunisia and is verifying documents to arrange their return.
- Chief Minister Hemant Soren instructed the deputy commissioners of Bokaro, Hazaribagh and Giridih to ensure the workers’ safe repatriation.
- In video appeals, the migrants report months without pay, 12-hour shifts, food shortages and threats of jail when they protested.
- The group comprises 19 from Hazaribagh, 14 from Giridih and 15 from Bokaro, according to officials and activists.
- The workers say they were deployed by a Delhi-based private firm for high-transmission line work under a multinational contractor, with the recruiter identified in reports as Prem Power Construction, which they accuse of misleading them.