Watch video: 24 Indian sailors trapped as slaves in Malaysia factory

Inspired by Lokesh Sapaligarsquos flight to freedom another Indian has managed to get away from the clutches of the human trafficking mafia in Malaysia But he bears grim news there are two dozen Indian seamen trapped in a factory who are being made to toil in inhuman conditions without proper food or accommodationAlso read Mumbai mans daring escape from human slavery mafia in MalaysiaPunjabbased Narender Singh said he was kicked and abused when he fractured his handmidday had reported how 27yearold Lokesh Sapaliga had been packed off to a fibre processing plant in Sibu Malaysia by a Nallasopara based placement agency After being subjected to torturous 18hour workdays eating rotten food and sleeping on mattresses infested with bed bugs Sapaliga managed to bribe a few officials and establish contact with his relatives in India who pressured the placement agency to bring him backmiddayrsquos report on Lokesh Sapaliga who managed to escape and return to IndiaSapaliga managed to flee from the factory in the dead of the night collect his passport from the agents and fly back to India Now Punjabbased Narender Singh 22 about whom Sapaliga had spoken has also managed a brave escape He however is at a friendrsquos place in Malaysia and hasnrsquot been able to come back to India Sapaliga had managed to capture Narenderrsquos plight on his phone cameramiddayrsquos November 7 report on the Andheri manrsquos escape from MalaysiaHow he got thereLike Sapaliga Singh too was attracted to the lsquojobrsquo by an advertisement promising a good salary for working aboard a ship in Malaysia as a seaman He landed up in Mumbai in July and got himself accommodated in the seamenrsquos colony in BelapurHe met the Mumbaibased agent Bhupender Singh who runs Diksha Marine Services It has offices in Haryana Mumbai and many other places ldquoAs soon as I came to Mumbai he Bhupender started following me topay him so that I could be sent to MalaysiaI got carried away by the offer He told me that I would get R20000 to R30000 a month I paid him Rs 150 lakh for his servicesrdquo Singh told midday from Malaysia Singh added ldquoOn reaching Kuala Lumpur in August an Indianorigin agent Prabhat who is based in Malaysia gave me temporary accommodation for ten to twelve daysOne day he asked me to get into a vehicle that belonged to CM Fibre Processing Sdn Bhdrdquo An online check showed the unit is an oil palm factory based in Sibu Sarawak set up in 2007 to convert palm oil waste into raw fibre for exportIt is a subsidiary of the Sri Minyak Group Bhd which was established in 1986 and has dealt with a major oil and gas company in Sarawak for over 26 years On reaching the factory Prabhat told Singh he would have to work there That was the last time he saw PrabhatBeaten bruised brokenldquoThey have guards who are built like bouncers They beat us if we fail to report to work I have been surviving on rotten and stale food for the last three months They have thrashed me on several occasionsThe supervisors torture us labourers in the middle of the night They walk into our rooms ask us to wash utensils and clean our rooms just to harass usrdquo Singh recalledWorkers were made to slog for 18 hours a day in unsafe conditions One day Singh had a terrible fall from the top of a furnace and fractured his hand Instead of helping him the guards kicked him saying he had purposely done so to play truant from workldquoI was injured in September a month after joining the place I was not given any medical aidrdquo he said Moreover the supervisors deducted a large chunk of his measly salary and paid him only 200 Malaysian ringgits approximately Rs 3600 for August He was paid even lower 50 Malaysian ringgits Rs 900 last monthEscapeSapaligarsquos escape had given everybody hope On Friday morning Singh decided enough was enough Like Sapaliga he waited till everyone was asleep It was raining cats and dogs and the factory is in the middle of a jungleAgainst all odds with a broken hand Singh climbed a hill in pitch darkness and reached the other side He managed to hail a bus and reached a friendrsquos place 500 kilometres away from the factoryAccording to Singh a native of Noor Purvedi village in Ropar Punjab more than 24 Indian workers are trapped as slaves in the factory All of them were lured with the promise of a seamanrsquos job on a shipldquoThe youths have come from Delhi Haryana Uttarakhand Uttar Pradesh Apart from Indians there are several youngsters from Myanmar as wellrdquo he statedldquoThere is a constant influx of workers Most of them are promised a job on a ship but end up in the slavery racketrdquo he added ldquoI am happy to escape but I have nowhere to go nowMy passport and visa are with the agent Prabhat and he is nowhere to be found I have to go to the Indian embassy in Kuala Lumpur but the only way I can go there is by flightrdquo he ruedSingh says Bhupender is also ignoring his phone calls He has learnt from other fellow workers that Prabhat has left for India Once he is back Singh hopes to collect his documents to return to India and get his hand which is still broken treated Meanwhile the police have not made any efforts to trace the agents