MADURAI
Following the directions of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, the Revenue Divisional Officer of Periyakulam issued a bonded labour rescue certificate and handed over a rehabilitation amount of ₹20,000 to a boy from Theni, who was rescued from a savoury unit in Bengaluru, on Wednesday.
A division bench of Justices S. Vimala and T. Krishnavalli had earlier called for an action taken report. The CB-CID (Anti-Human Trafficking Wing) had rescued the boy from Bengaluru in January, after he went missing from near his school.
The mother of the 11-year-old boy, Poonkodi, had filed a habeas corpus petition before the Madurai Bench in 2017 alleging that her son was kidnapped. She said two of his son’s friends had complained to their headmaster that they (and the missing boy) were approached by a man who enquired if they wanted to work for his company.
The petitioner claimed that the students had complained that the very same man had kidnapped her son and a CCTV camera near the school had captured the man approaching the boys. She had alleged that only after the intervention of the Additional Superintendent of Police, Ka. Vilakku police had registered a complaint. The court had transferred the investigation to the CB-CID (Anti-Human Trafficking Wing).
