India, Aug. 9 -- The Bihar government on Friday intervened to help a 15-year-old boy from Kishanganj who had walked almost 150km from Jind, clutching his severed left forearm, before being rescued from Nuh last month.

The teenager had been injured while working on a motorised fodder-cutting machine in Jind, where he was allegedly kept as forced labour. His employer abandoned him after the accident, prompting him to begin the long trek home to Bihar's Kishanganj - over 1,000km away - on foot.

On July 29, while trudging barefoot in the rain along the Nuh-Tauru road atop Panchgaon hill, clad only in his underwear, and his poorly bandaged stump bleeding, the boy was spotted by two government schoolteachers Arvind Kumar and Rakesh Kumar. His...