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nine-year-old boy was starved, beaten and tied up while being kept as a slave at a coal yard, after his parents failed to repay a loan.
Photographs
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show the unnamed child bound to a metal pillar with his arms tied above his head at the yard
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declined to comment on the pictures but said they were currently looking for a man suspected of kicking a boy he was keeping as a child slave
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so-called bonded children as a guarantee against the parents paying off a debt is increasingly common, despite the fact is illegal in India.
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little more than slave labor with the child often working unregulated hours in factories or farms.
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freed the little boy after they heard him screaming while enduring an hour-long beating with a stick, and they chased the man off and called the police.
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said he was starving because his employer had not given him food for more than four days and had beaten him with a cane after tying him to a pole.
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'I was beaten because I had asked for Rs 50 (90 cents) from the owner to buy some food.'
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are currently looking for the coal depot owner, named as 57-year-old Net Ram.
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detectives said that when they went to the man's house
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near the New Delhi border he and his family had vanished.
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said that the pictures had been taken by its photographer who was in the area, and confirmed they were genuine.
In India, coal is offered to the poor at a subsidized rates by some depot owners who will also accept bonded children - whose parents had taken loans but not paid them back - in order to pay off the debt.
SOURCE
http://www.capitalbay.com/latest-ne...-because-his-parents-couldn-t-pay-a-debt.html