Wager couple in T’gana not spared to attend son’s funeral Saturday, 15 February 2020 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA

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 Puni Sabar and his wife Bimle, tribal migrant labourers of Mahulkot village under Khariar police station of Nuapada district working in a brick kiln in Patelguda of Ranga Reddy district in Telangana for the last two months, were not allowed by the employer to come to their village to perform the last rites of their son Rohit Sabar, who died in an accident on Tuesday last.

Puni's relatives  managed to do the funerals of the youth in absence of their parents. Local Sardar Pabitra Hati of Palma village (Khariar block), who had taken the duo to the kiln along with another Sardar Partham Behera of Kantabanji, now says that the employer would not spare the couple even if they returned the advance money they had taken from the employer.

Notably, the couple has not been legally registered with the concerned authorities under relevant law while leaving the State. Being afraid of the Sardars, the relatives of Puni are not coming forward to lodge a complaint against the brokers. However, the District Labour Officer (DLO), Nuapada, after learning about the matter from a tweet tagged to the CM office, Odisha, has ordered the Sardars to bring the couple back from the kiln.

When contacted, broker Pabitra Hati told that the employer was agree to spare only Bimle, mother of the deceased.

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