‘Mistreated and beaten up’, 11-year-old help rescued from Noida society; employer among 5 booked
Residents of the high rise in Noida’s Sector 137 claimed the minor girl tried to escape from her employer’s house in the past, too
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The Noida police said the girl was sent to a child protection home and an investigation has been launched into the allegations (Representative/file photo)Five persons were booked on Tuesday following the rescue of an 11-year-old girl who worked as a domestic help at a flat in Noida, police said. The girl was rescued on Monday morning from the housing society in Noida after she ran away from her employers, alleging mistreatment. The five booked included the girl’s mother and the couple at whose flat she was employed, the police said.
The minor’s uncle and aunt, are the others booked in the case under sections 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt) of the BNS and relevant sections of the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, said Suniti, DCP, Mahila Suraksha.
Employing a child below 14 or a child between 14 and 18 in a hazardous occupation is a punishable offence in India.
The minor had allegedly been working at the accused’s flat for over a year and a half after her uncle brought her to Noida.
The girl, from Jharkhand’s Bokaro, was rescued by a team of Noida Police and the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) after the society’s residents found her. The girl has been sent to a Child Protection Home and her parents have been informed, said CWC chairman Dr K C Virmani.
He told The Indian Express that the minor’s medical examination confirmed the girl was being assaulted by the employers. “The girl recorded her statement before a five-member CWC. She was also physically examined and there are severe bruises on her body. She told us she was beaten up by the flat owners,” the chairman said.
On Monday, the minor was rescued after residents of the society alerted officials about a girl found “playing with mud between two towers”. “It looked like she had not eaten for a long time. Her clothes were dirty and she was shaking,” said the resident who found her and alerted others.
The girl told residents her employers allegedly beat her up and she did not want to return. Meanwhile, the employer also arrived at the spot along with the security supervisor. The residents alleged he yelled at the child. Soon, the child was handed over to CWC members who arrived after being informed by police.
A security guard at the society claimed this was the child’s second attempt to escape. “This was not the first time she’d gone missing,” he said on condition of anonymity. He said two months ago, he found her hiding in one of the towers and handed her over to the employer. “He (the employer) told me his relative was missing. I found her and handed her over to him… he scolded her and took her along. I didn’t pay much heed then,” the guard said.
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