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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Eight years in bonded labour, tribals recall horror, now hope for new life, homes -Kavitha Iyer

Eight years in bonded labour, tribals recall horror, now hope for new life, homes -Kavitha Iyer

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published Published on Jan 11, 2020   modified Modified on Jan 11, 2020
-The Indian Express

For eight years, Kantabai Jadhav was among 14 tribal men and women, and eight children, who lived as bonded labourers working on farms, a cowshed and a rice mill just 120 km from Mumbai in Dhamane village of Pune’s Maval taluka.

Ahmednagar, Pune:
“They would call us dogs, and other bad words for women… There was no cooking oil, nor any vegetables, ever. There was dried fish and foodgrain and atta, so I would cook these in water on a high flame, making everything very spicy to mask the rawness.”

For eight years, Kantabai Jadhav was among 14 tribal men and women, and eight children, who lived as bonded labourers working on farms, a cowshed and a rice mill just 120 km from Mumbai in Dhamane village of Pune’s Maval taluka. They were rescued in June last year in an operation involving local police, the tehsildar of Maval, other officials and activists.

An FIR was finally filed in the last week of December, at the Shirgaon-Parandwadi police station, based on a government official’s complaint, under sections of the Bonded Labour (Abolition) Act, 1976 and Section 374 of the Indian Penal Code for unlawful labour practice. No arrest has been made.

According to one of the tribals, Sandeep Kale, 28, they were a team of 30 adults from villages in Sangamner and Parner talukas of Ahmednagar, all belonging to the ST Thakar community, who signed up for a season of work — four-six months — as sugarcane harvest labourers in 2011.

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The Indian Express, 11 January, 2020, https://indianexpress.com/article/india/pune-ahmednagar-bonded-labour-tribals-rescue-police-6210741/


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