Rescue of 28 Nepali workers from Jammu and Kashmir

Twenty eight Nepali workers have been rescued from Srinagar in India administered Kashmir and handed over to their families. The 28 laborers, 21 from Siraha and seven from Dhanusha, who were held hostage in Srinagar in Kashmir for five months, were rescued and brought to Nepal at the initiative of Nepal government. The laborers who were rescued and brought to Janakpur in Dhanusha on Thursday in coordination with the Nepali Embassy in India, the Indian NGO Kin, were handed over to their families by the concerned district administration office on Friday. 

Zubair Khan from Bhimnagar, Bihar, India, lured the laborers to the conflict-torn region of Jammu and Kashmir through Nepali brokers to get attractive wages for road construction work, forced them to do dangerous work, beat them when they asked for wages, took away their documents and mobile phones, and took them hostage. After one of the hostages hid in their house, a request was made to the administration for rescue through the ward, municipality. Nepali and Indian agents who work as middlemen to bring Nepali workers to Jammu and Kashmir will also be searched and brought under the scope of action after investigation.