NHRC takes suo motu cognizance of reports alleging bonded labour, assault of 12 workers at Muzaffarnagar factory
The Commission issues notices to the state Chief Secretary and DGP, calling for a detailed report on the matter within two weeks
Forced Labour
Supreme Court directs Maharashtra Govt to stop inhuman practice of plying hand pulled rickshaws in Matheran within 6 Months
The Court opined that continuing such an inhuman practice even after 78 years of the country getting its freedom and after 75 years of the Constitution being enacted and promising social and economic justice to its citizens, would be betraying the promise given by the people of India to themselves.
[FLASHBACK] On the International Day for Abolition of Slavery, read how Orissa High Court Decoded the terms ‘Slave’ and ‘Slavery’ in the context of ‘Forced Labour’
Orissa High Court: P.K. Tripathy, J., decoded the meaning of the terms ‘slave and ‘slavery’ in the context of Forced labour. Petitioners in
