Trigger warning: Mention of abuse, trauma and injury.
This morning, Parth (name changed to protect identity) is thoroughly impressed with his team at work. As a production inspector at a leading automobile firm in Aurangabad, his position is one of great responsibility. And he does not take this job lightly.
Not more than a year to this day, his life looked very different. An air-conditioned office for a workspace was substituted by a 90-foot-deep well in Maharashtra’s Osmanabad district — where Parth along with 10 other men was expected to clock 14 hours of rigorous work every day, surveilled by ‘contractors’ who had lured the group to the site under the garb of a well-paying job.
Parth and his companions were sentenced to months of bonded labour. “I was told there was some electrical and painting work to be done at this site…
