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Maha: Desperate for Diwali cash, bonded labourer brutally caned in Palghar
Updated On: 13 November, 2023 04:12 AM IST | Mumbai | Diwakar Sharma
In latest case of abuse, paddy field worker, who had borrowed R2k last year, thrashed for working on rival’s land for money for Diwali
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Pawar with activists shows a copy of the FIR; Deepak Damu Pawar; Harshad Vishnu Dengane, the landlord who thrashed Pawar; marks of the beating on Pawar’s leg and back. Pics/Hanif Patel
A bonded labourer was brutally caned by a landlord in Wada taluka of Palghar after he went to work in a field of the latter’s rival to earn some money for Diwali. After the assault, the landlord threatened the victim saying he would pack his body in a jute sack and discard it if he didn’t return to his field. Deepak Damu Pawar, 38, belonging to the primitive Katkari tribe, had taken a loan of Rs 2,000 last year from his landlord Harshad Dengane, 35, as his wife Kalpana was to deliver a baby. Those involved with tribal welfare say there are 150 cases of poor tribals being forced into bonded labour in Maharashtra.
According to the FIR registered at Wada police station, for every day that Pawar worked in Harshad’s paddy field, Rs 100 was waived off from the loan he had taken. Pawar was forced to work in the paddy field as he had taken the loan. However, since it was a festive time and he needed money, he went to work in the neighbouring field of Mahesh Dengane on November 9.
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