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KARNAL: Extra tales of youth from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan poured out from Russia on Saturday.A person from Gurdaspur in Punjab, Manpreet Singh (28), mentioned he too had are available in contact with the identical agent who despatched the 2 brothers from Karnal in Haryana. The brothers returned house on March 27. A person from Pakistan, Harun Arshad (33), too spoke to TOI and mentioned he too had been duped in the identical trend as youth from India.Manpreet mentioned that they had been despatched to a Russian camp in Saint Petersburg eight days in the past. “We were told we will be sent home, but are now in this camp, where more than 300 people like us have been kept, who are constantly being forced to join Russian Army. Not just boys, girls are trapped here too. Most of them hail from India, but some are from Pakistan and Afghanistan too. Manpreet said he came in contact with same agents as Mukesh and Sunny. “Baljeet Kaur from Jalandhar defrauded us of lakhs. She has a Pakistani contact in Dubai, to whom she sends cash that she loots from her victims. She despatched me to Dubai, then Thailand after which Russia in a bluff of sending me to Germany. Sandeep Singh from Jalandhar is an agent who defrauded me. Pannu from Mukerian is one other agent who betrayed me and my household. They do not choose my name I do not know whom to contact. I really feel helpless.”He said he stayed in a jail in Russia for two months because he disagreed to join Russian Army and then they threatened to send him to jail for 10 years for illegal border crossing. “I hail from a poor household. My household wasn’t capable of afford a lawyer in Russia, so I needed to keep in jail. I met Mukesh, Sunny and Harun in Belarus and we had been put in the identical cell within the jail in Moscow. Our telephones had been taken and we weren’t capable of discuss to our households. I talked to my household after two months. 4 boys had been put in every cell and we had been enclosed in a room with only a small iron door from the place we used to get meals. This went on for 2 months. We did not see the surface world for 2 months,” he said.”Mukesh and Sunny landed safely house, however my mother and father did not have cash to rent a lawyer. Similar is the case with Harun. I talked to my household two days in the past. They’re extraordinarily burdened. I’m scared too. I need to go house,” he added.Manpreet said he was now staying in a room with Harun, Mohit Kumar (24) from Ambala and Pradeep Kamboj (33) from Rampura in UP. “I’ve met different victims too, most of them are Indian. Some hail from Pakistan and Afghanistan too. We’re a complete of 300 individuals. There are some women from Bihar additionally. However they’re stored on one other ground,” he said.Telling about the victims’ routine in Russian camp, Manpreet said they woke up at 8am, were served mostly porridge and bread by 9am, and then allowed to stroll around till 1pm, when they get lunch. “They serve us non-vegetarian meals, so I solely eat boiled potato and bread. It’s extremely onerous to outlive right here,” he added. Manpreet said a person from the Russian govt came every Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, with a list of people who could be released for India. “All of the boys within the camp are part of a WhatsApp group. Whoever reaches house, he updates within the group. We’re ready for our names to be within the checklist,” he added.

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