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| Bonded labours in Lassipora brick kiln | | HC calls status report | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 23: Treating the petition, filed by one Likayat resident of Muzzafarnagar (UP), seeking directions to the respondents to produce the detenues along with their belongings in the High Court and set the detenues at liberty, as Public Interest Litigation, Division Bench of J&K High Court at Jammu, comprising Chief Justice Manmohan Sarin and Justice Sunil Hali, today issued notice to State of J&K through Home Secretary, Deputy Commissioner Pulwama and SHO Pulwama and Police Chowki, directing them to file a status report giving the factual position with regard to the averments made in the petition.
The Division Bench not only granted permission to file this petition in Jammu wing but treated the same as Public Interest Litigation.
In the petition it was alleged that 46 persons were working as bonded labours at the two brick-kilns as the petitioner being one of the detenues managed to escape from the brick-kiln in the darkness during the night and reached at Jammu to file the present petition. It was further submitted that the petitioner and other detenues were contacted by the owners of the brick-kiln in their village in UP in the month of May, 2008 and they entered into an contract for manufacturing kaccha bricks at the brick-kiln of the respondents namely Mohammad Dar and Salim Munshi @ Rs 210 per thousand Kaccha Bricks. The respondents assured that the petitioners and the detenues will not have problem regarding the payment. Accordingly the labourers reached at brick-kiln in the month of May 2008. It was alleged that the respondents have kept the petitioners and detenues and their families at brick-kiln under the threat. The petitioner seeking direction to respondents to produce the detenues along with their belongings in the High Court and set the detenues at liberty along with the belongings. (JNF) |
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