NOWSHERA, May 14: District and Sessions Judge Khwaja Wajihuddin on Monday got freed 11 people, including women and children, who worked as bonded labour in a brick kiln.

A bailiff, accompanied by personnel of local police, raided the kiln in the Azakhel area on the order of the judge and freed the bonded labour.

The court took the action on the complaint of brothers Muhammad Gul and Mukamil Gul who, in their complaint filed with the court, had stated that they and their families had been forced to work as bonded labour in the brick kiln owned by Hazratullah and Rehmatullah.

They said that they wanted to leave the job and return to Charsadda, their native district, but the kiln owners were keeping them in confinement.

Advocate Zameer Muhammad Khan appeared for the complainants and contended that keeping the people in confinement was illegal.

Bailiff Safdar Shah and personnel of local police raided the brick kiln and freed family members of the complainants. The labourers were produced before the court along with the owners.