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As Hindu group built world-class temple in N.J., a group of Indian workers alleges they were exploited

As Hindu group built world-class temple in N.J., a group of Indian workers alleges they were exploited
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They were allegedly recruited as cheap labor to help build a temple.
Members of the lowest-rung of India’s caste system, known as Dalits, were brought to New Jersey to help build a magnificent Hindu temple in Robbinsville, working behind the scenes to perform what they allege to be grueling and often dangerous work.
“What is ironic here is that those who are forbidden to enter into the Hindu Temples in India for the reason of impurity and pollution are brought into the U.S. with religious visa to build a temple,” said Ben Chinnappan, president and executive director of Dalit Solidarity, a U.S.-based organization advocating for Dalit rights. ....

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Hindu temple in N.J. accused of exploiting workers it lured from India, lawsuit alleges

Hindu temple in N.J. accused of exploiting workers it lured from India, lawsuit alleges
Updated May 12, 2021;
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A lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday alleges the builders of a New Jersey Hindu temple considered to be one the largest in the United States lured workers from India, worked them nearly 90 hours per week and paid them around $1.20 per hour.
One worker, the lawsuit claims, died from forced labor.
The allegations were made against Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, a Hindu sect known as BAPS, and the leaders who run the Robbinsville temple and its construction. The temple opened in 2014 and is constructed entirely of Italian marble that was sculpted in India and completed on site off Route 130 in Robbinsville. ....

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