Young brick-kiln labourers recovered on IHC direction

ISLAMABAD—Police officials of Karal have recovered the five disappeared young brick-kiln labourers and produced them in Islamabad High Court here Friday.
The single bench comprising Chief Justice Sardar Mohammad Aslam had directed the concerned police officials on Thursday to apprise the court next day by taking prompt legal action against the responsible. Mohammad Sharif, appeared before the court and apprised it that he was an incharge of a brick-kiln in Mandi Bahauddin and these children had been working there.
He said that he took the children with him after making a payment of Rs 101,000 to Chaudhry Riaz, an accused brick kiln owner of Karal, as he had paid this amount in advance to the parents of these children. He strongly denied all the accusations made in the writ petition and said that their parents knew the fact and if they wanted to get children then they should repay him the outstanding amount. Chaudhry Riaz also admitted these facts. Chief Justice Sardar Mohammad Aslam directed Mohammad Sharif to hand over all the children, which he had brought with him, to their parents Mansab Bai and Manzoor. He suggested that if he had any outstanding amount, he should file a civil suit in the District and Session Court Islamabad or Mandi Bahuddin but he could not keep the children forcibly with him.
A writ petition was filed by Mansab Bai through her counsel Zulfiqal Ali Azhar Bhutta advocate, in which she alleged that Chaudhry Munir, Chaudhry Riaz and Chaudhry Ahson, owners of brick-kilns in Karal, had kept them in forced detention where they were subjected to inhuman conditions.

—Online