Hindustan Times - 30/4/09
Abdul Zabar, a 12-year-old, lugs bags of stamps and ink to Dr. Antonia Da Silva High School in Dadar, Mumbai. The school falls in the South-Central Mumbai constituency, which goes to the polls on Thursday.
Zabar was found working with labourers in the hall where polling-related material was kept to be distributed across centres. When photographers present there clicked Zabar’s picture, the labour contractor asked the boy to stop working and made him sit on the floor. He was later sent out of the hall.
HT photographer Kunal Patil followed Zabar and asked him his name and age. The contractor noticed this and tried to justify the boy’s presence, saying he was not being made to work but was merely accompanying his uncle who was a labourer.
Zabar was found working with labourers in the hall where polling-related material was kept to be distributed across centres. When photographers present there clicked Zabar’s picture, the labour contractor asked the boy to stop working and made him sit on the floor. He was later sent out of the hall.
HT photographer Kunal Patil followed Zabar and asked him his name and age. The contractor noticed this and tried to justify the boy’s presence, saying he was not being made to work but was merely accompanying his uncle who was a labourer.
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