In Hyderabad, a local court has sentenced two bangle businessmen hailing from Bihar to 14 years of rigorous imprisonment for trafficking minor boys from their home state to make them work as bonded labourers in hazardous bangle-making units here.

A police release said Mohd Imtiyaz and Munna, both natives of Bihar were awarded the sentence by Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge on Wednesday.

The release said, in a search operation on January 9, 2016, 219 minor boys, all hailing from Bihar, were rescued from bangle-making units of the convicts in Talab Katta area in the Old City. They were found working under inhuman conditions. Later all the boys were handed over to their parents in Bihar.