A nine-year-old bonded labourer

Last week, a duck farmer was arrested on charges of keeping a child from Andhra Pradesh as ‘collateral’ for a loan and then killing him in Tamil Nadu. Though bonded labour has long been banned by law, it continues to be practised, say activists. Nellore Sravani reports on how the boy’s mother, Ankamma, a woman from a tribal community, tried in vain to bring her child back home

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