Lucknow: Shackled in the iron chain before going to bed, every night Satayendra dreams of freeing himself from his masters in the hope of returning home and hugging his parents away more than 1,000 km from him.
At the age of 11, the boy was kidnapped by a truck driver in 2018 after he was offered a sedative food in Dhaba (restaurant) at Lucknow-Sitapur Highway.
When he regained awareness, he found himself tied in a truck behind the driver’s seat.
Then, the driver allegedly sold Satayendra to the owner of a large livestock outside Amritsar in Punjab, where the boy was forced to commit labor.
“There are half a dozen other teenage boys from various countries brought to the warehouse for workers’ work.
Our work is feeding livestock and keeping a clean warehouse.
We were given a new identity – I was called Shiva and was asked to wear turban,” Satyendra said, Coming from Mahona Village from the police limit of Itaunja in the Lucknow-Up District.
“They used to attack me and made me feel hungry if I insisted on being sent home.
The moon passed and I received my fate but never forgot my parents and village,” Satyendra added.
Sitting on his mother’s lap Sudevi, the teenager said, “I was taken to Katrayaina Village on the outskirts of Amritsar.
We were shackled on the iron chain of the night before going to bed.
One day, finding the opportunity to escape, I run away and reach the train station Amritsar, where Childline saved me.
“Sumit Yadav, a cousin away from the Satayendra who went to Amritsar to take him from the prisoner of the children, said,” Itaunja police did not submit FIR even after a written complaint was handed over to them.
For months The police continued to mislead their families and avoid their questions about their son’s whereabouts.
They never tried to find the child.
“” A few days back, Childline Lucknow contacted a family with the help of local police and identity of Satayendra and the location was confirmed, “Sumit added.
Sangeet Sharma, Coordinator of Childline Lucknow, said, “The Childline Amritsar unit carried out an attack with the local police at the location distributed by Satayendra, but there were no other children under the age found.
Maybe, they were shifted before the arrival of the team.
In Lucknow, local police Not doing their work and failed to submit FIR.
If the child did not escape from his abductor livestock, he would not return home.
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Kidnapped for child workers, teenagers returned home
