Section 18
Punishment for extracting bonded labour under the bonded labour system.
The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976
About this Act
An Act to provide for the abolition of bonded labour system with a view to preventing the economic and physical exploitation of the weaker sections of the people and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
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.