India, July 31 -- A 15-year-old boy from Bihar, allegedly confined to a room and forced into labour at a dairy farm in Haryana's Jind, walked more than 150km with a severed left forearm before he was rescued by two government school teachers and a police officer in Tauru, Nuh district, earlier this week, police said on Thursday.

Exhausted, disoriented, and clad only in underwear, the boy had not eaten for days when teachers Arvind Kumar and Rakesh Kumar spotted him staggering barefoot in the rain on Tuesday morning. His left arm had been severed from the elbow and crudely bandaged. Despite his injury, he had set off alone on foot, determined to return to his home in Kishanganj, Bihar - over 1,000km away.

"I asked him where he was going ...