Body of Hyderabad man duped into working as ‘helper’ for Russian army reaches home

Asfan (30), who was among Indians “duped” by agents on the promise of jobs, was taken to Russia and forced to work as a “helper” for the Russian army, his brother Imran had earlier said.

On 21 February, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi told reporters that family members of some Indian youngsters, including two from Telangana, had informed him that their kin were duped by agents on the promise of jobs and taken to Russia.

However, they were allegedly sent to the war front on the Russia-Ukraine border.

Owaisi had then requested the Union government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to hold talks with the Russian government to bring the youngsters back to India.

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Trapped, conned, killed 

In February, Afsan and the families of several other trapped men claimed that they were lured by a man named Faisal Khan, running a YouTube channel named Baba Vlogs, and his aides Sufiyan, Pooja, Mohammed Moin, and Kushpreet to work as a “Russian Army security helper”.

Hemil Ashwinbhai Mangukiya (23), an Indian man hailing from Gujarat, was reportedly killed last month in an airstrike in the war.

As many as 100 men, including three from Kalaburagi in Karnataka and one from the Narayanpet district in Telangana, were reportedly said to be the victims of the alleged job fraud that landed them on the frontlines of the conflict.

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