Monday, October 17, 2011

High Court of Bangladesh orders probe into ‘child labour’

The High Court of Bangladesh on April 15,2013 ordered the government to investigate the allegation against Akij Biri Factory Limited of employing over 1,000 child workers at the tobacco factory in Rangpur.

In response to a writ petition, the court asked the government also to investigate the allegation of evading millions of tax money by using tax labels which were fake or have been used before on its biri packets.


It directed the authorities concerned of the government to submit the investigation report to it within 15 days.

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