PESHAWAR, June 12th: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on June 11 directed the police to recover 17 people, including women and children, allegedly held in illegal custody at a brick kiln. A division bench comprising PHC Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and Justice Qaisar Rashid issued the orders while hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by Sharif Zada, a resident of Charsadda, through his counsel Naveed-ur-Rehman. Zada said his immediate family and the families of his brother and son-in-law had been earning their livelihood as daily wagers at a brick kiln owned by Abdul Rehman in Shobala, Telaband for the past eight months. He added Rehman had loaned them Rs160,000 (Rs53,334 for each family). “He (Rehman) deducts Rs2,000 from each labourer and a total of Rs64,000 has been … [Read more...]
44 recovered from private jail
SANGHAR, June 7: Following the court's order, police raided a private jail of a landlord, situated at Nayaabad area of the city, and recovered 44 detainees, FP news desk reports on June 6. The detainees included 22 children, eight women and twelve men who were forced to do bonded labor at the jail. Recovered people were freed to live their free lives. Published by Daily The Frontier Post on June 7, 2013 … [Read more...]
27 bonded labourers rescued
THATTA, June 3: Twenty-seven bonded labourers, including seven women and 10 children, were recovered after the police raided an agricultural farm near Ghorabari early on May 31 on the orders of district and sessions court Thatta. The sessions court had given orders for raid after a petition was moved by a relative, Jai Ram Kolhi, of the labourers in illegal custody by the Fazal Laghari Agricultural Farm located in Samki taluka near the coastal town of Ghorabari. These labourers were to be employed as land tillers but had been held hostage for a long time without payment of wages. Thatta district and session judge Abdul Razaque Memon had ordered immediate recovery and production of the labourers in court. Following the raid, the police brought Sonu Kolhi, Bhambho Kolhi, Anand … [Read more...]
3 siblings recovered from brick kiln
PESHAWAR, May 6: A bailiff sent by District and Sessions Judge Shaiber Khan on May 4 set free three children of a woman from the custody of a brick kiln owner in Badaber. Bakhtmina had approached the court, saying that she had been kept in illegal detention by the brick kiln owners Ikram, Zahoor and others for two months. She said that she later managed to escape from the custody of the brick kiln owners but her four children were held hostages. The Badaber police had reportedly refused to lodge an FIR when she approached them. The court on Saturday sent a bailiff to the brick kiln, from where three children Salman (7), Farman (3) and Bas Lala (5) were recovered while Shaula (9) couldn’t be recovered. The court directed the Badaber Police Station to lodge an FIR against the … [Read more...]
14 peasants released by court
MIRPURKHAS, May 1: The Mirpurkhas district and sessions judge set 14 bonded labourers belonging to the Kohli community free on April 30 after recording their statements. Kanji Kolhi had a filed a petition in the sessions court two days ago, pleading that 14 f his relatives, including women and children, were being illegally detained on the farmland of landlord Seth Ashok Kumar in Deh 284 of Kot Ghulam Muhammad taluka of Mirpurkhas district. The petitioner stated that his relatives were forced into labour and were deprived of their wages and share of crops, requesting the sessions judge to direct the police to get his relatives released. The Kot Ghulam Mohammad police raided the farmland of Seth Ashok Kumar on court orders and recovered 14 peasants including women and children … [Read more...]