Whoever enforces, after the commencement of this Act, any custom, tradition, contract, agreement or other instrument, by virtue of which any person or any member of the family of such person or any dependant of such person is required to render any service under the bonded labour system, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and also with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees; and, out of the fine, if recovered, payment shall be made to the bonded labourer at the rate of rupees five for each day for which the bonded labour was extracted from him.
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Section 1 · Short title, extent and commencement.Section 2 · Definitions.Section 3 · Act to have overriding effect.Section 4 · Abolition of bonded labour system.Section 5 · Agreement, custom, etc., to be void.Section 6 · Liability to repay bonded debt to stand extinguished.Section 7 · Property of bonded labourer to be freed from mortgage, etc.Section 8 · Freed bonded labourer not to be evicted from homestead, etc.India Code, Government of India. Text fetched 17 Oct 2026. Check the linked official text and subsequent notifications when applying a provision.