A Melbourne couple who enslaved an Indian grandmother for eight years has been ordered to forfeit the proceeds from the sale of their $1.4 million home.

Kandasamy Kannan, 61, and his wife, Kumuthini, 58, must pay $140,000 in combined penalties to the state, police revealed on Friday.

The couple were each found guilty by a jury of "crime against humanity", by enslaving a woman who had entered Australia from India on a tourist visa.

They were ordered to pay $485,000 to the victim in ex-gratia in 2023.

Now Kumuthini has agreed to pay a pecuniary penalty of $100,000, while Kandasamy will pay a penalty of $40,000 in addition to the forfeited equity and interest from the 2016 sale amounting to more than $475,000.

At their 2021 trial, the court heard the victim had been missing from her fami

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