India, May 27 -- The Haryana Human Rights Commission (HHRC) has directed the state government to pay Rs.10 lakh compensation to a 16-year-old boy from Bihar who was allegedly forced to work at a dairy farm in Haryana and abandoned after his left arm was severed in a motorised fodder-chopping machine in July last year.

In its order issued this month, the commission observed that the victim suffered "not only physical injury but mental agony as well" due to the permanent loss of his upper left limb. The bench comprising HHRC chairperson Justice (retired) Lalit Batra and members Kuldip Jain and Deep Bhatia directed the home department to ensure compensation and provision of an artificial upper limb for the child.

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