There are seven members in his family, his parents, two brothers, and three sisters. One of his brothers is married. They stay in a small Jhuggi (slum). They do not have any landed property. His father is a labourer, mother works in the farm. His younger sister looks after the household.

Aghan is illiterate and could not study due to poor financial condition of his family. He helped his parents. Later he came into contact with a middleman who used to supply labourers to loom owners of Varanasi. He was lured by middleman for working at a loom in Varanasi, where he worked for a year in Sabari village of Varanasi district. After a year he was sold with four other children to another carpet loom owner.

He used to work from 5 o'clock in the morning till 11 o'clock in the night often working throughout the night. Work pressure made him weak and prone to several ailments like eye complications, pain in the spine and limbs. Food was often not provided to him and on rare occasions he was given stale food which caused further loss to his health.

Aghan developed skin problems but the owner ignored all these. He never received any oil, soap, clothes, toiletries etc for his maintenance. If they were extremely sick, the owner used to get them treated inside the four walls of the mill. Aghan tried to escape many a times but failed.

Whenever Aghan wanted to go home to meet his parents he was not allowed, the owner beat him on the fingers and this terrorized the other kids also who wanted to go home.

Once when Aghan refused to work on the loom, the owner inserted a hot iron rod in his eyes and consequently he cannot see with his left eye.