Adinarayana

HYDERABAD: A 10-year-old boy, employed as a domestic labourer in a schoolteacher's house in Mehdipatnam was rescued on Thursday by a group of NGOs and Government officials.

"My employers told me they would educate me. But I was tortured and made to work as bonded labour. Please do justice," complained P. Adinarayana, son of a farm worker from Cuddapah in writing to local community volunteers, who alerted NGOs Asha Foundation and others.

Badly bruised

At the Asif Nagar police station, where the rescue team brought him, the badly bruised boy showed wounds on his hip, and other parts of the body. While his parents sent him in February 2005 with Asha, a teacher and her husband, Murali Mohan Reddy, a lecturer, hoping he would be provided education, Adinarayana said, "I was working from dawn to dusk sweeping floors, cleaning toilets, washing clothes and even cooking meals." A nearby STD booth worker who noticed the inhuman treatment meted out to the boy alerted the anti-child labour organisations, which swung to action on Wednesday. The boy was sent for medical examination and Asifnagar police arrested the teacher and her son, Sai Srinivas Reddy, studying engineering .

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