New York, November 11
A Hindu organisation is facing new allegations in an updated lawsuit that it lured labourers from India and forced labourers to work for low wages at its temple sites across the US.
In May, a group of Indian workers had filed a lawsuit in US District Court alleging violations of human trafficking and wage law against Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS), saying they were confined and forced to work for about USD 1 on constructing the Swaminarayan temple in New Jersey.
The New York Times said in a report that in the lawsuit filed in New Jersey court, the BAPS has been accused “of luring labourers from India to work on temples near Atlanta, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles, as well as in Robbinsville, New Jersey, paying them just $450 a month”. — PTI
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