Ravi was seven when The Sunday Times found him working 98 hours a week
The Sunday Times exposed the life of Ravi, who worked in a Delhi sweatshop.
Ravi made Christmas decorations for the British high street.
Ravi was forced to sit for up to 20 hours a day in a squalid back room.
Ravi was beaten if he fell asleep on the job through exhaustion.
Ravi was discovered during an undercover investigation, by a children's charity, into child labour in Delhi, where up to 50,000 children work illegally.
Ravi made the long train journey back to his home state of Bihar in eastern India.
Ravi has been returned to his mother after being found working in a sweatshop
Ravi's mother is a poor widow.
She says that a factory owner came to her and said that, if she gave him Ravi, she would get around £7 per month.
Child labourer in India.
On 13 May 2012, The Sunday Times told us about a little boy called Ansar.
Ten-year-old Ansar was rescued from a Delhi sweatshop.
"My father promised he would come back for me," Ansar repeated over and over, as tears came to his eyes.
His father had sold him to the sweatshop for £12.
India is reckoned to have many millions of kids like Ansar.
In 2009, the Top 10 Worst Sweatshop Abusing Companies were reported to be (Top 10.):
1) Primark
2) Topshop
3) Asda/Walmart
4) Tesco
5) Nike
7) Disney
8) Burberry
9) Starbucks
10) Planet Earth Inc
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