'Sold' boy returns home

KAPILVASTU, Nov 21: A boy who had been sold to a factory in India nearly a decade ago has managed to flee from the grip of the factory owner and return home.



Amar Saha of Kapileshwar of Sugamdhukari- 2 in Dhanusha was sold by local Munif Nadaf aka Munna to a Chandranagar-based press factory in New Delhi. He was none when he was sold 10 years ago.



"One day, when the factory owner gave me some cash to buy cigarettes for him, I fled from there," said Saha, adding, "Until then, I never got a chance to see a single ray of the sun."



"After fleeing from the factory, I worked at a farmer´s home in one village for five months and arrived in Kapilvastu via Nepalgunj," he said, adding, the village chief had given him IRs 4,000 so that he could return home.

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