Jaspal Singh @Jassa S/o Saffi, Age-46 years, r/o Village- Ramewala, tehsil & District- Firozpur. The bonded labourer’s family belongs to “Valmik” caste which is declared as a Scheduled caste by the Punjab government. Under mentioned family members are in debt bondage of Tara Singh Fauji (Ex. Serviceman) S/o Hazara Singh r/o Village- Kutbewal, tehsil & District- Firozpur, Caste-Kamoj. (a) Wife -Smt. Sumitra Devi , (Age45) (b) Daughter: Rekha (16 years) (c) Daughter: Kiran Bala (14 years) Jaspal Singh is in debt bondage with the employer form the last 35 years. At the age of 6 years the father of Jaspal Singh was expired and the family was under extreme hardships then at age of 9 years he joined the work of Tara Singh of his village who give him Rs.500/- as debt advance & Jaspal Singh started work for Tara Singh. He was given very pity money for survival & that was not met with his regular requirements. Even Jaspal Singh as a servant was use to take meal at his own house. At the age of 15 years Jaspal Singh was married to Sumitra Devi. After marriage his wife also was working with the same employer for cleaning the cow sheds & housekeeping. Sumitra Devi (Wife) of Jaspal Singh suffered with Paralysis attack & become physically challenged. After this the employer insisted to Jaspal Singh to send his daughters in place of their mother. For the last two years Jaspal Singh’s two daughters are also entrapped in bondage. Jaspal Singh has mentioned that his working conditions are very tough & usually he work from 6:a.m to 10:00 p.m. The employer has two farm houses. One is in Indo-Pak boarder having wire fencing when Jaspal Singh was employed there then he can not come to his house as the BSF do not allow anyone to stay in the night time. But when Jaspal Singh was employed to his village-Ramewala land then he came to his house only for two times to take his food. During the harvesting season, he is to work day & night. Tara Singh( the employer ) very often take the thumb impressions of the bonded labourer on many papers some of them blank papers & some of them printed. Jaspal Singh being illiterate do not know about documents/papers. Jaspal Singh demands money for the work done by him & his daughters the employer (Tara Singh) ignores his request. Moreover, the employer says to Jaspal Singh that he has to pay 1,00000 (Rupees one lakh) and after repay of this amount he & his daughters can go anywhere otherwise not. On November 2011, Jaspal Singh has requested one of his community man who is rich enough to lend him Rs. 1,20,000 (Rupees one lakh & twenty thousand) for the freedom of Jaspal Singh & his two daughters. Afte taking the money from Jaspal Tara Singh said that they did not check his account properly before but to discontinue his work Jaspal has to pay 1,00,000 more. Tara Singh has threatened Jaspal Singh that if he & his daughters tried to leave his work then he will implicate them in some false case as he is familiar with many police officials. Tara Singh is demanding debt amount from Jaspal Singh but he has not paid the wages of Jaspal singh, His wife Sumitra & his two daughters since decades. Now the bonded labourer Jaspal singh & his two daughters do not want to continue their services with the employer Tara Singh. But the employer is harassing the bonded labourer so that he could obtain the bonded debt from him.

Charan Singh (42) s/o Bhagchand is the resident of village Arouda, under Nadboi police station in Bharatpur Dist. belong to Scheduled Caste (Jatav) community. Charan Singh owned a piece of land along the road side, which passes through his house. He did also plant some trees on the road side, close to his land.

On the day of incident, 19 Oct, 2011, when the Charan Singh was at home, Bharat Singh & Gyana Singh s/o Malkhan Singh, belonging to Jat community, went to victim’s house and pulled out a stamp, which was being used for tying domestic animals. When Charan Singh and his family objected to it, the accused persons threatened to the victims by saying this land belongs to us, if you bring any objection against us, we will kill you. 

Then the accused persons went back, but after 15 minutes, a gang of people namely Bharat Singh & Gyana Singh s/o Malkhan Singh, Man Singh, Pul Malkhan, Rajesh s/o Phoji, Malkhan s/o Dariv, DeshRaj s/o Phoji Malkhan Chandrabati w/o Phoji Kashalya w/o Malkhan, went to victim’s house again well armed with deadly weapons like lathi, rods, farsa and attacked the entire family of Charan Singh.

The accused attacked Keshula w/o Charan Singh with farsa on the head. Keshula run inside the house and hid herself in a darkened place to save her life. The accused also chopped off hands and legs of Bhag Chand with farsa. In critical condition Keshula and Bhag Chand were admitted in Rajkiya Hospital in Bharatpur.

On 19 Oct, 2011, Charan Singh lodged complained in Nadboi police station, thus a case was registered, case no. 491/11, u/s 143,323,341,452,354,379, IPC & 3(1)(x) of SC/ST (PoA) Act. When the accused persons came to know that a case has been registered against them in Nadboi police station, they again went to victim’s house and set his house on fire and broke drinking water hand pump too. Charan Singh lodged complaint in Nadboi police station again, but the police did not register. The perpetrators were arrested and sent to jail. However, the victim’s family is under threat of perpetrators. The victim’s family has not received any compensation yet.