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The Korean police arrested the owner of the Bangur firm on Monday (May 15th) on the charge of beating Nepali worker Tulsi Pun Magar to the point where she was forced to commit suicide and also for not paying the wages of the workers.
After continuous pressure from Pravasi Shramik Union (MTU) and Challanado Pravasi Shramik Manav rights organization, the police arrested the owner of Nan Usong Bangur Farm in Yangamgun, Chhallanamdo, Korea for further investigation. MTU and human rights organizations filed a complaint on March 26 to arrest him. This firm is about 360 km away from the capital Seoul.
President of MTU Uday Rai said that the matter of beating of workers and Tulsi Pun's suicide has been entered in the process of judicial review. According to him, the labor office's investigation has revealed that the owner of the Bangur firm beat the workers without paying 250.9 million won.
Magar committed suicide at Bangur Farm of Malika village-1 Niskot of Magdi on 9th of February last. He arrived in Korea just 6 months ago to work in the agricultural sector under the Employment Permit System (EPS). His colleagues Lal Bahadur Tamang, Prem Bahadur Tamang, Ruk Bahadur Singh, Surendra Thing, Ghanshyam Ghimire and Tulsi Pun Magar released a video saying that they wanted to leave the Bangur firm because they were being tortured. Magar committed suicide within a few days.
'I have been beaten four times within two months of coming here. Lal Bahadur appealed in the video, "That's why I don't want to stay in this company. Tulsi also said that he was being beaten up in the video. Our problem is the same. Save us,' said Tulsi. However, he could neither leave the company nor return to Nepal. He chose the path of suicide.
After Magar's suicide, Maia Kandel, the Labor Counselor of the Nepali Embassy, Uday Rai, President of the Official Migrant Trade Union (MTU) of Korea, Bipin Kumar Gurung, the President of the Non-Resident Nepali Association, Korea, arrived from the capital Seoul on February 12 regarding the Nepali workers in the company. Before them, the victimized workers demanded that the Nepali supervisor Sujan Shah and the Korean employer should take action against the culprits saying that they took them to a corner where the CC cameras could not see them, beat them, did not allow them to carry mobile phones, and did not allow them to leave the company.
