Auraiya Man Recounts Abuse Inside Muzaffarnagar Factory

When Rajrani and Virendra Gautam finally embraced their son on Sunday night, the relief was overwhelming. For six months, they had wandered the streets of Gurugram carrying posters with his photograph and sleeping on footpaths in the hope that someone would recognise him.

He further alleged that pitbull dogs were used to stop workers from escaping and claimed that two labourers who tried to flee were beaten to death. Police have not confirmed these allegations.

Shivam, a resident of Khajubaiya village in Auraiya’s Dibiyapur area, was among the 13 labourers rescued from the factory in Mandi village after another worker, Vikram, managed to escape and alert the Titavi police.

Investigators are probing allegations that workers from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and other states were lured with promises of jobs paying ₹10,000-12,000 a month before being illegally confined and forced to work.