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After months of surveillance across three states, railway police arrest man accused of forcing a child into bonded labour in Haryana

Even 50 years after abolition, bonded labour casts its shadow on India’s democratic promises

February 10, 2026 12:50 pm

Bonded labour (or debt bondage) is defined as a condition where money is lent in such a way that the debtor is forced to pay back through labour instead of money

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Beyond 1976 ban: Expert on why 50 years later, India’s 'broken' justice system still fails millions in bonded labour

February 10, 2026 10:52 am

Bonded Labour Abolition Act 1976: 50 years of abolition law: Dr Tina Kuriakose Jacob is a development sector practitioner working with both government and civil society organisations, specialising in migration, bonded labour and human trafficking.

A Delhi court has pulled up the Delhi Police for making a “complete mess in the matter”.

We need data-driven policymaking to counter human trafficking and bonded labour

October 22, 2025 6:31 pm

Without a victim-centric justice system response, including protection from intimidation by perpetrators and their associates, laudable policy initiatives will remain a paper tiger

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‘Paid Rs 50 per head, worked for over 14 hours’: After 18 months in captivity, tribal family rescued from bonded labour in Pune

July 04, 2025 10:14 am

The rescue work began on June 27 in collaboration with Pune’s District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) and Nirman Bahuuddeshiya Vikas Sanstha.

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Unsung Heroes: From chains to change – how Rupa and Poornima are breaking the cycle of bonded labour

March 09, 2025 12:01 pm

Marappa is the current president of Udayonmukha and his wife Poornima heads its handicrafts unit.

Torn between poverty and bonded labour, these children find no solace in laws either

August 02, 2021 6:02 pm

Officials have refused to consider them bonded labourers due to lack of “documentary evidence” or proof of debt bondage or simply due to a plain denial of the existence of the menace

February 25, 1981, Forty Years Ago: Bonded Labour

February 24, 2021 10:58 pm

It is happening within 30 km of Delhi — brick kiln labourers are being bought and sold all over Haryana.

Japan's legacy of forced labour haunts ties with neighbours

August 10, 2020 10:32 am

The legacy overshadows Tokyo's relations with its neighbours even today and, some say, helps to perpetuate mistreatment of minorities among its own people.

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‘Bonded labour’ at brick kiln: High Court tells Kapurthala collector to file report

June 26, 2020 10:24 am

A petition filed by activist Nirmal Gorana last week alleged that at least 50 labourers from Chhattisgarh including minors and women were being forced to work as ‘bonded labourers’ at a brick kiln in Sangatpur village of Phagwara tehsil.

SC issue notices to UP, Bihar on plea alleging bonded labour in brick kilns

June 04, 2020 8:46 pm

The Supreme Court directed the district magistrates of Sambhal in UP and Rohtas in Bihar to submit a report regarding action taken by them in "liberating 187 bonded labour victims working in brick kilns whose details are given in the order passed by the National Human Rights Commission".