Nine migrants, including four minors, who were forced to work as “bonded labourers” at a potato farm in Kapurthala’s Sidhwan Dona village were rescued on Friday. The action came after two other labourers managed to escape from the farm and reached Meghpur village in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district, where they informed local authorities about the apathetic working conditions. After the Sitamarhi …
The Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government told the Delhi high court that it will take action to rescue minors trafficked from different parts of the country to the Capital and being forced to work as bonded labourers upon getting “actionable information”. The petitioner in the case, Rohtas, who claimed to support the work of an NGO, said that he has …