Kuala Lumpur, June 05: Malaysian High Court has directed a counsel representing 52 Indian workers, suing their employer for breach of contract, to send the statement of a witness to the Indian government. Justice R K Nathan said the Indian authorities should be informed that India-based agents of foreign worker recruitment companies here were misleading its people who came here for employment, 'The Star' reported from Penang today.

He added the 52 workers had come all the way from India to work here and had to seek justice in Malaysian courts, said the paper, reporting on a case filed last year by the Indians against their Malaysian employer, chin well fasteners.

Earlier, the judge lambasted the witness Amarjeet Singh, (37), a foreign worker recruitment consultant, for testifying that he had never recruited workers from India.

"I gave you a chance to read through your statement but now you are telling that you have never supplied workers from India when in your sworn statement, you admitted assisting the factory in supplying Indian workers since 1995," he said.

Amarjeet Singh said that he was not aware the word "India" was included in the statement, as he had only supplied workers from Nepal, Bangladesh and Indonesia to the company.

Singh was testifying in the suit brought by Sampath Kumar Vellingiri and 51 others against chin well fasteners, a Bukit Mertajam factory.
The Indians, mostly employed as general workers, are suing the factory for alleged breach of contract, and among others, failing to pay their minimum monthly wages of rm600 (around Rs 7,200) as agreed in their contract.


Bureau Report