The National Human Rights Commission has directed its Director-General (Investigation) to depute a team to look into the plight of bonded labourers working at a brick kiln in Domanpur village of Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh.
Suo motu cognisance
The Commission took the decision taking suo motu cognisance of a report telecast by a news TV channel recently with interviews of three such labourers.
The workers alleged that they were being forced to work as bonded labourers to repay their debts. If they refuse to work, they were abused and beaten. The television news story had also claimed that the labourers working in the brick kiln were not aware that the practice of bonded labour had been abolished by the Government more than 30 years ago.