New Delhi: An 11-year-old boy who had been sold twice by his parents and made to do menial jobs was 'rescued' by the Madras High Court on Friday.
The court has ordered the state government to facilitate the boy's education, whicle regretting that the legislation against child labour has not had the desired effect in the country.
The boy's father -- a farm labourer -- had filed a Habeas Corpus petition in the high court saying that his son had been missing since December 2005. The court gave its decision while disposing the petition.
However, the boy contested had contested his father's petition saying that he had not been missing, but instead had been sold off by his parents for Rs 3,000 to a vegetable dealer near Chennai.
He said that the vegetable vendor had forced him to do menial jobs, saying that he had escaped from him, only to land up as a labourer at a kiln, before returning home in October 2006.
He also told the court that when he returned home, his father sold him again, this time to a farm owner..
The boy told the court that he did not want to stay with his parents but wanted to study instead.
He has now been put in a state-run children's home. The High Court has given his parents permission to visit him, but they are not allowed to disturb his education.
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