NHRC notice to Delhi govt. over bonded labour

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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday issued a notice to the Delhi government and the Delhi Police over reports of 26 boys found working as bonded labourers at a factory in north-east Delhi's Seelampur. According to media reports, the boys, aged between eight and 13 years, were rescued from bonded labour at a jeans factory last month. The job of the children was to cut threads of denim and pack it.