New York: prominent Hindu organizations face new charges in the updated lawsuit that he lured workers from India and forced hundreds of workers to work with low wages on temple sites in the United States.
In May this year, a group of Indian workers had filed a lawsuit in the US District Court who accused the violation of human trafficking and the law of wages against the Bochasan Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BBS), said they were limited and forced to work around $ 1 to build a large Swaminarayan temple – The amount in New Jersey.
The New York Times said in a report on Wednesday that in a lawsuit filed in the Federal Court of New Jersey and amended last month, BAPS had been accused of “lipers from India to work on the temple near Atlanta, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles, as well as in Robbinsville, New Jersey, paid them only $ 450 per month.
“” The lawsuit that was changed expanded the claim to include temples where some people said they were also sent to work.
Hundreds of workers have the potential to be exploited, the lawsuit claimed, “said the NYT report That in May said that the complaint has named six men who are among more than 200 Indian citizens who are brought to the US starting from around 2018 about the Religious ‘R-1 Visa’ visa.
The people were made to work “hours of tiring in new conditions on the New Jersey site”, the NYT report said.
India Civil Watch International (ICWI) said in a statement in May for PTI which began at the early hours on May 11, the FBI LED attack saved around 200 workers, “most of them, Bahujans., And adivasis”, from the temple location Swaminarayan in Robbinsville, New Jersey, reportedly the biggest Hindu temple in the US.
Changed complaints accused BAP-officials “violating the Labor Law of the State and organizations that have been influenced and corrupt.
Acting, better known as Rico, which was created to leave after organized crime,” said the report.
Complaints include accusations including “forced labor, trade relating to forced labor, bondage documents, conspiracies, and confiscation of immigration documents with the intention to be involved in fraud in foreign employment contracts” and failure to pay minimum wages.
“ICWI said workers are paid at USD 1.2 per hour, far below the US Federal minimum wage currently $ 7.25 per hour, and under even minimum wages far in 1963.
The NYT report said the workers were hidden from the trailer Look and have been promised work helped build a temple “in Robbinsville with” standard working hours and enough time.
“However, the workers commit manual labor on the site,” Working almost 13 hours a day lifting large stones, operating cranes, and other heavy machines , Building the way and storm sewers, digging trenches and shoveling snow, everything is equivalent to around $ 450 per month.
They paid $ 50 in cash, with the rest stored on an account in India.
“BAP-BAP officials have denied mistakes.
In May, Lenin Joshi, a BAP-BAP spokesman, also denied the allegations, said workers did a complicated job that connected the stones that had been handed in hand in India, said the report.
“They must be suitable like a jigsaw puzzle.
In that process, we need special craftsmen.
We are naturally shaken with the turn of this event and believe that once full facts come out, we will be able to provide answers and show that these allegations and allegations are free,” said Joshi in the report.
Forced laborers used on the US Hindu temple site: report
