Tarlai: 20 brick-kiln workers freed

ISLAMABAD: A court bailiff on Tuesday rescued 20 brick-kiln workers from the illegal detention of two kiln owners.

On the direction of Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman, the court bailiff recovered the workers from Tarlai on the outskirts of Islamabad.

They were recovered from the illegal custody of two brick-kilns owners Chaudhry Raheel and Methu.

Tanveer Bibi, a relative of the workers, had filed a writ petition in the IHC challenging the detention of the 20 brick-kiln workers in Tarlai area.



Published in The Express Tribune, April 20^th, 2011.