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Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 24 2010:
All the 27 villagers held captive at Lemta under Tamei sub-division of Tamenglong were freed yesterday and they reached Imphal this afternoon.
All the 27 labourers belong to Wangoo of Bishnupur district.
Speaking to media persons after arriving at Imphal, the labourers said that they were taken to Kuilong in Tamenglong district on November 17 last by two contractors namely Khangbo of Thonglan Akutpa and Khangpui of Makui village to execute a contract work.
They reached Lemta on November 19.The contractors then instructed them to cut down trees.
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Accordingly, the labourers starting felling trees.
But on December 8, a large number of villagers came to the spot and asked them to stop felling trees.
Questioning with whose permission they were felling trees, the Lemta villagers took the labourers to their village and held them captive there.
The freed labourers said that they were treated well by Lemta villagers except for the threat they would be handed over to a UG group if they could not hand over the two contractors to the village authority.
On December 23, a team of 10th Dogra Regiment came to the village and they convened the two contractors.
The troops also facilitated negotiation between the two contractors and the Lemta village youth association and the sides arrived at an amicable solution.
Subsequently, the 27 labourers were freed safe and sound.
The labourers also appealed to the contractors to pay their wages for hiring them for more than a month.
Later, the labourers went to their respective homes and got re-united with their anxious families.
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