Search Results for Tag : bonded labour

News

SC: Force/Compulsion Must be Established to Attract Offence Under Bonded Labour System Act(23.09.2022)

Supreme Court has held that for attracting the provision of Section 16 of the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976, the prosecution must establi.....

Tags : Supreme Court, Bonded Labour, Force/Compelled

Karnataka High Court Acquits All Accused in Hangarahalli ‘Bonded Labour’ Case(13.01.2017)

Karnataka High Court has acquitted a stone crushing unit proprietor and three others accused in Hangarahalli ‘bonded labour’ case that had hit headlin.....

Tags : Karnataka High Court, Bonded Labour’, Hangarahalli

Delhi High Court Seeks Report on Efforts to Rehabilitate Bonded Labourers(11.04.2018)

Delhi High Court has ordered the Labour Ministry, Police and New Delhi government to report on efforts to rehabilitate people rescued from bonded labo.....

Tags : Delhi High Court, Bonded Labour

Madras HC: Frame Action Plan to Stop Bonded Labour(20.12.2016)

Madras High Court, concerned with poor conviction rate of offenders facing trial for forced bonded labour, has directed Tamil Nadu Government to appoi.....

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Notifications & Circulars

Rehabilitation of Bonded Labour(10.07.2019)

The Government of India has implemented a Central Sector Scheme for Rehabilitation of Bonded Labourer, 2016 for providing rehabilitation assistance to.....

Tags : Rehabilitation, Bonded Labour, Scheme

Government proposes harder fight against bonded labour(17.05.2016)

The central government announced proposals to make the Rehabilitation of Bonded Labour Scheme more effective. The scheme now envisages an increase in .....

Tags : Bonded labour, rehabilitation, corpus, financial assistance