22 bonded labourers freed from landlord's confinement

SANGHAR:

Acting on the orders of Additional Sessions Judge Ghulam Murtaza Baloch, Jhool Police rescued 22 members of a Hari family-including men, women, and children-who had allegedly been held in illegal confinement for a year.

Jhool police station SHO Inspector Ahmed Ali Shar led the raid at the agricultural land of a local landlord in Fida Hussain Rind village, and the freed labourers were presented before the court.

The petitioner, Hoti Bheel, told the court that landlords Bhoro Khosa, Hanif Khosa, Kamdar Keval Bheel, and Waris Umrani had kept his family in chains and forced them into bonded labour on their fields.

He alleged that despite cultivating crops for the past year, the landlords refused to settle accounts and threatened to kill his family when they demanded payment. He added that the family was only provided basic rations to survive.