India, July 2 -- Ten days after an ammonia gas leak incident at a seafood processing unit in Tamil Nadu claimed the lives of 14 women workers from Odisha, including 13 from Keonjhar, the Odisha labour department lodged eight FIRs across the district, accusing the company and its alleged recruitment network of illegally employing minors using forged identities and Aadhaar credentials.

The FIRs were registered at Telkoi, Pandapada, Harichandanpur, Daitari, Keonjhar Town, Keonjhar Sadar, Kanjipani and Nayakote police stations in Keonjhar following a labour department inquiry into the recruitment of migrant workers employed at St Peter's & Paul's Seafoods Export Facility in Tamil Nadu's Thiruvallur district. The eight FIRs mark the first coo...