Jharkhand: Not paid for 9 months, 250 forest labourers in Pakur move court Their hopes now hinge on a Public Interest Litigation filed in the High Court seeking its intervention to get the Rs 10 lakh these labourers are owed. The HC is yet to issue a notice on this issue. December 16, 2020 1:58:31 am Nijjar was arrested at the Delhi airport on Tuesday in connection with a case filed in 2019. (Representational) Around 250 labourers who were employed for manual upkeep of a forest in one range of the Pakur Forest Division in Jharkhand say they have not been paid wages for over nine months despite bringing the matter to the attention of authorities several times. Some of these workers held a protest outside the Pakur Division Forest Office Tuesday demanding wages.