Ranchi, Dec 4 (PTI) Five migrant workers from Jharkhand stranded in Cameroon in central Africa and allegedly unpaid for months returned home on Thursday, officials said.

Shikha Lakra, team leader of the State Migrant Control Room (which functions under Jharkhand’s labour department), told PTI that the workers landed in Mumbai Airport on Tuesday and boarded the Mumbai-Howrah Mail on Wednesday and reached their home districts of Giridih and Hazaribagh on Thursday.

“They arrived at Parasnath station (in Giridih district) via the Mumbai–Howrah Mail and proceeded to their respective homes," said social activist Sikandar Ali, who raised the issue of the stranded workers with the state government.

Ali had taken up the matter with the state labour department, which coordinated with the Indian E

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