The Thane district rural police in Maharashtra has registered a case against a man and his two sons for allegedly employing bonded labourers at their brick kiln and torturing them, an official said on Saturday.
Bonded or forced labour is prohibited explicitly under Article 23 of the Indian Constitution and various other laws.
Accused Siddique Hussain Shaikh and his sons Arbaz and Arfat, all residents of Tembivali in Bhiwandi tehsil, had engaged a couple belonging to the tribal Karkari community and their children for the past four years, said the official.
Citing the victims' complaint, the official said the trio forced them to work at their brick kiln and cut grass. The victims were beaten up, tortured and starved whenever they asked for compensation.
The Bhiwandi taluka police station on Friday night registered a case against Shaikh and his sons under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act.
No arrests have been made yet, the official said.
In a similar matter, the Phaltan police in Satara district has registered a case of gang rape as well as offences under the SC-ST Act and Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act against five persons, including a now-arrested man who used bonded workers to make charcoal, an official said.
A 26-year-old woman, who hails from Raigad district, had been taken to Satara for work but was gang-raped on multiple occasions, he said. The accused held her husband and children captive, he added.
To escape from the clutches of the accused, the woman hid herself in a sugarcane field for an entire night. She then fled leaving behind her two kids and in-laws.
When activists of NGO Shramajivi Sanghatana led by its working president Shena Dube-Pandit visited the place where the woman lived and suffered atrocities for two weeks, they found nobody at the spot.
The police identified the arrested man, who is the main accused, as Hasan Latif Sheikh alias Balu Seth. Phaltan tehsildar (revenue official) Dr Abhijit Jadhav on Saturday issued certificates to 11 persons including five children, clearing them of bondage contracts. These persons included the woman who was gang-raped last month. Sheikh had allegedly kept some of them as bonded labourers for ten years.
Maha: Case registered against man, two sons for employing bonded labourers
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