AHMEDABAD: More than three decades ago, when a 7-year-old boy stepped out of his home in Ahmedabad to play, he was kidnapped by a trucker who drove him hundreds of kilometres to Haryana. He was made to work as a bonded labourer on an animal farm with almost no contact with the outside world. On Sept 16, the victim reappeared as a frail man of 35 at the Ahmedabad railway station police outpost. Throughout his years as a bonded slave, he fought hard to remember a few things about his family—his house had three rooms, his father went to work on a cycle, and he had five sisters. Upon entering the city, the man went to the cops and recounted how his childhood was battered out of him in an animal pen, amid goats, sheep, and filth, and pleaded for help to find his family. The man introduced

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