The NHRC on Thursday said it has issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government and the state’s police chief in a case of alleged atrocities against 12 bonded labourers at a factory in Muzaffarnagar district. The human rights panel has sought a detailed report from the authorities in two weeks.
In a statement, the National Human Rights Commission said it has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report about “12 bonded labourers being assaulted in captivity and forced to work till midnight without sufficient food and wages for nearly one and a half years at a paper plate manufacturing factory in Mandi village in Muzaffarnagar district”.
One of the labourers managed to escape from the factory and a complaint was filed with the Titawi police station, leading to the rescue of the other labourers, it said.