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Hyderabad, April 22 (Shoukat-PMI): The youth from Telangana, who were held hostage in a cyber fraud cafe in Myanmar and forced to work as cyber labourers with the hope of getting a good job in Bangkok, have been released following the intervention of Union minister Bandi Sanjay. Three of them are from Telangana and the other one is from AP.
On the orders of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar took a special initiative and brought them back to their home country. The victims were all deceived because the broker promised them a good job in Bangkok and a salary of lakhs of rupees every month. On the same matter, Myanmar victim Rakesh Reddy from Koheda of Hayatnagar mandal from Rangareddy district said a person named Yash Nath Goud, who lives in his area, promised him a good job in Bangkok.
“He took me to Vamsi Krishna, the broker’s agent (team leader) in Jagityal. Vamsi Krishna interviewed me. He said the job was 200 km away from Bangkok and took me there. When I went there, I was assigned to work for 16 hours a day. That work was cybercrime. If I did not do that work, they would not even give me food. I worked in that company for five months. I did not like the cyber crime work and became stubborn. With this, the Chinese there confiscated my passport. They tortured us without even giving us food. However, when we did not listen, they told the local army there and said we had entered that country secretly and handed us over to the army. They put us in jail,” he recalled.
Rakesh Reddy said he had recently learned that Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay had brought hundreds of victims like him back to the country from Myanmar and informed his family members. “When my father Yadi Reddy wrote a letter to Bandi Sanjay, he immediately responded and wrote a letter to the Ministry of External Affairs and immediately took all kinds of steps to bring us back to our country. Our entire family is indebted to Bandi Sanjay,” he said.
Along with Rakesh Reddy, A Sivashankar from Koheda, Kanuri Ganesh from Karimnagar district and Akula Guru Yuva Kishore from Andhra Pradesh were subjected to severe torture by the cyber crime brokers in Myanmar. It is noteworthy that all of them returned home at the initiative of Bandi Sanjay’s office.
Speaking on the occasion, Bandi Sanjay said they had information that hundreds of Indians, including many youth from Telugu States, were working as the cyber criminals in Myanmar and added that steps were being taken to bring them all home soon. (pressmediaofindia.com)
