129 children rescued from bonded labour
Published: October 8, 2005
Social workers and police today rescued 129 children from bonded labour in three embroidery units in a south Delhi area.
The boys, aged between 12 and 14 and hailing from West Bengal and Bihar, were rescued after a joint raid by police, social workers and government officials in the embroidery units in Kotla area in south Delhi.
They said they were forced to work for upto 16 hours a day.
The owners of the units managed to escape and cases had been registered against them, police sources said.
The children were later taken to the Mukti Ashram in north-west Delhi.
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