Orissa Child labourers tortured in Mumbai:Deshmukh assures action

Bhubaneswar, Sep 27 (UNI) Maharashtara Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has assured his Orissa counterpart Naveen Patnaik to take strong action against the persons involved in torturing the children workers in a bangle factory in Mumbai.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who discussed the brutal torture of child labourers from Ganjam with Mr Deshmukh before leaving for New Delhi this afternoon, demanded an inquiry into the barbaric incident.

The Maharastra Chief Minister assured Mr Patnaik that a detailed inquiry would be conducted into the incident and the culpriits would be punished.

Ten child labourers from Tanhar village in Ganjam district, who had gone to Mumbai to work in a bangle factory, were subjected to brutal torture by the owners of the factory.

The children, who were rescued by their parents with the help of a social worker, on their arrival at Berhampur yesterday narrated that they were beaten up by the owners of the factory when they came to know that they had informed to their parents about the torture and poor working conditions in the factory.

The child labourers had sustained burn injuries on their bodies.

Incidentally, the owners of the bangle factory were three brothers from the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's Assembly constituency in Hinjuli in Ganjam district.

Meanwhile, the officials from the District Labour Department had visited the village for an investigation into the incident and provided medical treatment free of cost to the children.

The District collector had also promised the parents of the children to take action against the culprits.

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