The cash registers of many gas stations never sleep. “I was there seven days a week, 12 hours a day, 84 hours minimum. Minimum,” said Chitra KC, 35, who worked in a station on Sunrise Highway in Holbrook, N.Y. He is one of about 27 immigrant workers from Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or India with wage claims against stations on Long Island owned by Steve Keshtgar, who filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 on Dec. 24.

Chitra KC said he was owed 10 weeks’ salary — about $8,600 — some of which he would like to use to help family members in Nepal who are recovering from the recent earthquakes. Other employees say they were pressed into renting beds in homes in Coram and Central Islip in Suffolk County that were owned by a manager for several gas stations.

“He had 25 or 30 people sleeping in the garage, in the kitchen, in the living room,” Chitra KC said. “When the night-shift workers left for their jobs, the day-shift people took the beds.”

This rental scheme and the unpaid wages were the work of a “rogue” general manager, said Michael Macco, the bankruptcy lawyer for the gas station owner, who maintained that the manager was responsible for distributing paychecks.