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Ten children were among the 12 radical rescued from bonded labour successful the Beed territory successful Maharashtra. All the victims, who are migrant labourers from Palghar adjacent Mumbai, were recovered to beryllium moving successful ‘inhuman conditions’ for respective years, with advances of ₹5,000-10,000 paid to them astatine the clip they joined work.
Among the victims was an 11-year-old miss who had been forced to enactment for implicit 18 months tending cattle and doing household chores. Another young miss had been held for the past 3 months, and a 3rd had been trafficked to Pathardi taluka successful Ahmednagar territory for forced labour, officials said.
The rescue took spot successful Tagadgaon colony successful Shirur Kasar taluka.
Officials said that contempt their advances being repaid done hard labour, the employees were not allowed to instrumentality location and that they were allegedly subjected to violence, including threats astatine knifepoint, and coercion utilizing sickles whenever they attempted to escape.
It was lone aft 1 of the labourers managed to get successful interaction with a societal idiosyncratic successful Palghar that authorities intervened. The societal idiosyncratic had approached Beed-based NGO Adhikar Mitra, who past alerted Tattvashil Kamble of the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA).
Beed territory Collector Vivek Johnson past intervened, and a coordinated rescue cognition was conducted with the engagement of the police, gross department, Women and Child Development department, and the Unorganised Workers Cell.
A lawsuit has been registered against 4 persons nether the provisions of the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976, Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986, and charges of trafficking successful the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
