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चर्चा में.... | क्रूरता की नई मिसाल !
क्रूरता की नई मिसाल !

क्रूरता की नई मिसाल !

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published Published on Jan 6, 2014   modified Modified on Jan 6, 2014

ओड़िशा के कालाहांड़ी जिले में बंधुआ मजदूरों पर भयावह अत्याचार का मामला प्रकाश में आया है। मानवाधिकारों के लिए कार्यरत संस्था एशियन ह्यूमन राइटस् कमीशन ने स्थानीय मीडिया केबीके समाचार तथा सीजीनेट स्वरा के हवाले से सूचित किया है कि बीते माह कालाहांडी जिले में दो बंधुआ मजदूरों के हाथ एक बिचौलिए ने काट डाले! एशियम ह्यूमन राइटस् द्वारा जारी सूचना के अनुसार बिचौलिए ने घटना को अंजाम देने से पहले एक हफ्ते तक दोनों मजदूरों को बंधक बनाकर रखा था।

मानवाधिकार उल्लंघन की ऐसी भयावह घटनाएं गरीबी और भुखमरी के लिए कुख्यात कालाहांड़ी-बोलांगिर-कोरापुट इलाके के विकास के आधिकारिक दावों को झुठलाती प्रतीत होती हैं।

एशियन ह्यूमन राइटस् कमीशन ने नागरिक संगठनों से अपील की है कि वे अत्याचार का शिकार हुए मजदूरों को न्याय दिलाने के लिए आगे आयें।( इस घटना के विस्तृत ब्यौरे के लिए कृपया देखें नीचे दी गई लिंक और लिंक के नीचे जारी की गई अपील)


घटना की तफ्सील:


बीते 15 दिसंबर, 2013 को एक बिचौलिए ने नीलांबर धांगड़ माझी और गियालू नियाल नामक दो मजदूरों के हाथ तथाकथित तौर पर एक बिचौलिए ने काट डाले। यह घटना तब प्रकाश में आयी जब दोनों मजदूर 16 दिसंबर 2013 को बेलपाड़ा से 40 किलोमीटर दूर स्थित भवानीपटना पहुंचे।


मजदूरों ने पुलिस को बताया है कि उन लोगों ने नुआगांव(जयपटना प्रखंड) के अपने दस अन्य मजदूर साथियों के साथ स्थानीय बिचौलिए बिमल राऊत और परसू नाईक से 10000 रुपये पेशगी के तौर पर लिए थे। पेशगी लेने का उद्देश्य रायपुर(छत्तीसगढ़) के ईंट भट्ठे में मजदूरी करना था।


पेशगी देते वक्त बिचौलिए इस बात को राज़ी थे कि मजदूरों को छत्तीसगढ़ के दूर-दराज के इलाके में काम करने को नहीं भेजा जाएगा। उन्हें राजधानी रायपुर के आस-पास ही रोजगार दिलाया जाएगा। लेकिन 30 नवंबर 2013 के दिन बिचौलियों ने 12 ग्रामीणों को जब काम पर रवाना किया तो मजदूरों को आभास हुआ कि उन्हें रायपुर के निकट ना लाकर कहीं और लाया गया है। स्थिति को भांपकर 10 मजदूर लघुशंका के बहाने भाग गये लेकिन दो मजदूर नहीं भाग सके।


इन दो मजदूरों को नुआपाड़ा जिले के खरियार प्रखंड कांटामल लाया गया जहां बिचौलिओं का प्रमुख परमा राऊत रहता है। पारमा राऊत और उसके सहयोगियों ने दोनों मजदूरों को बंधक बना लिया और यातनाएं दीं। परमा राऊत ने इन दोनों मजदूरों से पूरे समूह को पेशगी के रुप में दी गई कुल रकम भी मांगी। यहां तक कि परमा राऊत ने फोन पर मजदूर नीलांबर के परिवार वालों को धमकी भी दी कि रकम वापस नहीं हुई तो गंभीर परिणाम भुगतने होंगे।(परमा राऊत द्वारा इस्तेमाल किए गए फोन नंबर के लिए कृपया देखें नीचे का ब्यौरा). फोनकॉल के बाद नीलांबर की पत्नी ने पुलिस महकमे को संपर्क किया लेकिन एशियम ह्यूमन राइटस् कमीशन के अनुसार पुलिस ने शिकायत को रुटीन काम मानकर हल्के में लिया I पुलिस में शिकायत की बात जानकर मुख्य बिचौलिया तैश में आ गया  और उसने यह कहते हुए कि तुमलोग अब कभी काम नहीं कर पाओगे, दोनों मजदूरों के हाथ काट डाले।

लिंक- http://www.humanrights.asia/news/hunger-alerts/AHRC-HAC-014-2013

INDIA: Middlemen chop the hands of two bonded labourers in Odisha

ISSUES: Right to food; inhuman and degrading treatment; hunger, starvation, corruption; impunity; rule of law
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Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information from  local media KBK Samachar and CGNET Swara regarding two bonded labourers in Kalahandi district of Odisha who have had their hands chopped by middlemen. The AHRC has learnt that the middlemen illegally confined the labourers for almost a week before the incident. Such gory incidents in the impoverished Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput region refute the tall claims – of having eradicated of bonded labour and other forms of modern slavery – made by the authorities. The AHRC urges both the state and civil society to help end such inhumanity.

CASE NARRATIVE:

The hands of two labourers, Nilambar Dhangda Majhi and Gialu Nial, have allegedly been chopped-off by middlemen on the night of 15 December, 2013. The incident came to light when the labourers, travelling by bus, reached Bhawanipatna, around 40 km from Belpara, on the morning of 16 December 2013.

The labourers told the police that along with 10 other labourers of Nuagaon village, Jaypatna block, they had taken an advance of Rs. 10,000 INR each from local middlemen named Bimal Rout and Parsu Naik, to enable employment in the brick kilns of Raipur in Chhattisgarh.

Disbursing such advance loans is standard modus operandi used by touts to entrap  impoverished villagers into becoming bonded labour. Poor labourers in the Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput (KBK) area, where distress migration is endemic, often have no choice but to fall into traps set by touts. Studies have, in fact, found that not only landless labourers but even and marginal farmers are being forced into seasonal distress migration because of their inability to repay loans. Government welfare schemes like Mahtama Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act have failed to arrest the crisis, a failure that the state has acknowledged as well.

The touts had agreed to the demand of the labourers that they would not be made to work in the deep interiors of the Chhattisgarh state and that they would be employed somewhere near the state capital of Raipur. However, when the touts rounded up 12 of the villagers on 30 November 2013, they realized that they were being taken not to Raipur and to some place else. Horrified at this realisation, 10 of the villagers managed to escape, using the excuse of answering the call of nature.

The two that failed to run away were taken to the home of the main middleman Parme Rout in KantaMal of Khariar block in neighbouring Nuapada district. Parme Rout and his men kept the two men in illegal confinement and tortured them brutally. They also demanded that the men return 200,000 INR, i.e. the total advance purportedly taken by the whole group. Parme Rout called even the family of Nilambar Majhi using phone number +91 9439574038 and threatened the family of dire consequences if they failed to pay him 200,000 INR. He later called the family using two more numbers, +91 8018457393 and +91 8018701935. Intimating the police of the threatening ransom calls, the wife of Nilambar Majhi lodged a police complaint in the Jaypatna police station on 13 December. The family also approached the Superintendent of Police of Kalahandi about the abduction and threats.

The police, however, allegedly made light of the complaints and took no action. Incensed at the police complaint, Parme Rout allegedly took the two to a deserted place near Belpara village in Borda police station area of Kalahandi district. He and his men then tortured the labourers further. Telling them that they would never be able to work again, the attackers finally chopped hands of Nilambar Majhi and Gialu Nial and left them to die. The wounded men were fortunately noticed by local villagers, who sent them to Bhawanipatna hospital for medical help in a bus. The police, however, has not yet registered a First Information Statement in the case, arguing that the crime was committed under the jurisdiction of a different police station.

SUGGESTED ACTION:
Please write to the authorities mentioned below demanding immediate intervention to ensure arrest of the accused, proper investigation and prosecution of those found guilty. It may also be demanded that the public authorities and officials – including the police personnel who did not take cognizance of the ransom calls – who failed to discharge their duties and save the labourers are brought to justice.

The AHRC is also writing a separate letter to (i) the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate food and the Advisory Committee on the right to food, (ii) the UN Special Rapporteur on Rights of the Indigenous People and (iii) the Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India calling for intervention in the case.


(इस कथा में इस्तेमाल किए गए चित्र के लिए इन्क्लूसिव मीडिया फॉर चेंज http://globalannal.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/bonded-labor-child_labour-global-annal.jpg की आभारी है)

 

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