UMERKOT, Nov 5 Police recovered 86 bonded labourers from the illegal detention of a landlord and produced them in court on Thursday.

On the directives of Sindh High Court circuit bench Hyderabad, police conducted raids at different places and recovered 86 peasants, including men, women and children, from different areas of landlord Zubair Sehto.

A man named Sodho Oad, who was working as peasant with Zubair Sehto near Sufi Faqir, had succeeded to escape from an agricultural farm of the land lord and approached the District and Sessions Judge Umerkot.

He sought release of his 88 family members from the illegal detention, but the plea was disposed off due to reasons.

Later, he filed a plea in the Sindh High Court's circuit bench of Hyderabad which directed the Hyderabad RPO for release of bonded labourers.

The police officer with a heavy contingent of Umerkot police raided different places. The recovered 17 bonded labourers from Khahi, 64 from Sarhari minor and five from Nagarparkar. The recovered haris included 32 children 35 women.

The peasants were produced in the court of district and sessions judge Umerkot on Thursday where the court ordered Umerkot police to recover three other missing peasants Piaro, Sadagul and Nawaz and produce them in this court.

Sajan Oad, Ramesh, Kazbano, Soomri and Hema told this reporter that for the last two years, their accounts were being manipulated. On resistance they had been chained and maltreated.

They said that when Sodho Oad escaped and approached the court, the landlord started shifting them from one place to another.

The petitioner had sought release of 88 peasants. According to him three were still missing.