Rescue bonded labourers from Gujarat, HC tells SP

TAKING serious note of the inaction by the former Thoothukudi district collector and superintendent of police on a complaint filed by a woman, seeking to rescue her son who was a bonded labourer in Gujarat, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court directed the SP to depute a team to rescue all persons employed as bonded labourers at a shop in Gujarat.

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A bench of Justices CV Karthikeyan and J Sathya Narayana Prasad was hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by A Vasantha of Thoothukudi, seeking to rescue her son Ayyanar. The petitioner's counsel submitted that Ayyanar went to Chennai for work 16 years ago, following which Vasantha lost contact. She later learned that Ayyanar was working as a bonded labourer in Gujarat's Ahmedabad district. The court learned that Ayyanar was forced to work, was beaten up and verbally abused often and would be fed only at certain intervals. While his salary wa