RAWALPINDI, July 6: A bailiff of the court of the district and sessions judge here on Tuesday recovered 77 bonded labourers from a kiln located on Girja Road. The court set all the workers free. The labourers comprised 20 children, 26 women and 31 men.

The district and sessions judge, Chaudhry Asad Raza, had sent the bailiff to the kiln after relieving a habeas corpus application of Wazir Hussain wherein he had contended that a large number of bonded labourers were working in the kiln of Malik Zafar.

Another bailiff of the same court recovered a four-and-a-half-year-old girl, Obrai, from the illegal detention of her father and handed her custody over to her mother. The court had sent the bailiff after Basheeran Bibi filed a habeas corpus application contending that her husband, Sydney, was not allowing her to see her daughter.

Meanwhile, civil judge Kamran Basharat rebuked a sub- inspector of Chauntrah police, Zamarud, for arresting a 50-year- old man, Ashraf, on charge of vagrancy. The court also directed the police official to remove the handcuffs of the man and be cautious in future as not all citizens were criminals.

Additional district and sessions judge Chaudhry Abdul Qayyum acquitted two persons of murder charges after both the parties reached an out-of-court reconciliation. Bilal and Arif were accused of suffocating Khalid Satti to death.