BADIN: Badin District and Sessions Judge Tariq Mehmood Khoso on Friday set free 30 men, women and children who were forced into bonded labour by a landowner in Chak-43 of Golarchi for many months.

Complainant Mallah Mohammed had filed his application in the court stating that his family members and relatives had been forced into bonded labour by their employer, Malik Akhtar Awan, on his lands. He stated that they were neither being given their due share in crop nor were they allowed a free movement as per the Tenancy Act.

The judge ordered the Golarchi police to carry out a raid on the specified place and rescue the bonded labourers and their families if found there.

The police found seven men, 10 women and 13 children kept at the raided place and brought them to the court.

After recording the victims’ statements, the judge set all of them at freedom.

Published in Dawn, May 14th, 2016