For the 28 labourers of Muzaffarnagar (UP) -- including 10 women and 11 children -- who were forced to work in a brick kiln and were illegally confined by its owner at Khekhra village in Meerut (UP), freedom came only on the Supreme Court's intervention.

Consequently, a case under the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act and for wrongful confinement (Section 342 of the IPC) has been registered against the brick kiln owner. The case came to light after Subhash, one of the labourers, managed to escape from the factory and approached the Court.