Five Minor Children Rescued from Bonded Labour in Assam

The child labourers, who were rescued by a team consisting of Labour department, DCPO, CWC, Child Line and police personnel, were engaged in various establishments.

Meanwhile, the police have filed cases against the offenders for engaging minor children in establishments.

"Stringent action will be initiated against the offenders under the the provisions of Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation Act) and the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act," said a police official.

Debt bondage, also known as debt slavery or bonded labour, is the pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation, where the terms of the repayment are not clearly or reasonably stated, and the person who is holding the debt and thus has some control over the laborer, does not intend to ever admit that the debt has been repaid.

The services required to repay the debt may be undefined, and the services' duration may be undefined, thus allowing the person supposedly owed the debt to demand services indefinitely.