Overseas job craze can be a kind of honey-trap also: here is a soul stirring tale

Mobilenews24x7 Bureau

There is a frenzied spurt of overseas job seekers this day. Youngsters to middle aged all turn their heads that side regardless of a plethora of bitter outcomes those have played out describing the pathetic ordeals such people face abroad.
What lacks is a fact check effort which grossly lacks.
A recent incident that has come out should be a lesson for many who have lined up themselves for similar jobs through agents who lay the traps for quick money as a barter for ready & lucrative jobs abroad.
Seventeen men from India ventured into such a trap and ended up in untold miseries when they were all forced to land up in mental and physical torture in return for nothing.
All of them were on their way to Lybia, most of who were from Punjab and Haryana, who got sadly duped by the crafty travel agent and landed in soup.

All packed on the pretext of getting them a job in Italy. They were first flown to Dubai, followed by a brief layover in Egypt, and then taken to Libya, where they were allegedly kidnapped by the local mafia and tortured.
They had the hope of earning better money so that could augment the family affairs and give better education to the children.
Not a day or a week but a literal incarceration of five months in Libya and the details of the ordeals they all went through were nerve shattering.
Accounts of torture they were subjected to are disturbing. Confined in dingy dark rooms like criminals in a jail they were given something like a loaf of bread a day and nothing in the name of drinking water.
A few of them, as reported in some media platforms, were forced to drink ‘toilet’ water for survival.

Rahul Sharma
Even though the local agents had confiscated the men’s mobile phones and passports, Sharma managed to stealthily reach out to Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab, Vikramjit Singh Sahney, leading to their repatriation.
But how did the men, who went abroad hoping for better prospects, end up in Libya? And how did they escape their fate?
For example, Rohitas from Karnal was a good barber in a saloon but was lured by a job in Italy and he accepted for his kids’education. And the local agent lured him for a job at Rs 3-4 lakhs in Italy.
For which they had to arrange hefty amounts in lakhs to go there.
Each of them a similar story to tell back home like Rohitas and others. From a home guard job in Punjab but ran after as promised for a job in a filling station at Rs 1.33 lakh and he went ahead.
One Ramandeep Kaur from Punjab was quoted as saying that, his son, a hefty man of 70 kg now has comeback at 35 kg. That narrates the story of inhuman living there for all of them.

Rahul Sharma, 29, who returned to his hometown in Haryana’s Kurukshetra, too, spent over five gruelling months in Libya.

Even though the local agents had confiscated the men’s mobile phones and passports, Sharma managed to stealthily reach out to Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab, Vikramjit Singh Sahney, leading to their repatriation.
But how did the men, who went abroad hoping for better prospects, end up in Libya? And how did they escape their fate?

Even they were taken to Alexandria in Egypt, where