GURGAON: A teenage girl rescued from her employer’s house earlier this week has blood clots from ruptured vessels around her ears, multiple burn marks, cuts on her chest and swollen legs, besides malnutrition. Yes, the doctors treating him said on Friday.
An ENT specialist performed a surgical procedure to treat her clot and a second procedure is expected two days later. The minor’s employers, a couple with corporate jobs from whom she was fired, were arrested earlier this week.
the girl who was brought NCR from Simdega district of Jharkhand and hired as domestic help and Midwife The couple told the police that she was brutally tortured and tortured. She alleged that she was not only slapped and hit with iron rods, but also thrashed with iron tongs and cut with blades. She was not given proper food, due to which she was forced to eat the leftovers.
Following the intervention of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, a team from the eastern state’s Anti Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) reached the city on Thursday to take the minor back home, but was told that she was in no condition to travel.
“The patient is suffering from subdural hematomas which developed soon after a severe head injury. We removed his clot in a surgical procedure. After two days, we will again see what needs to be done,” said Dr . Jay SinghENT surgeon in the government hospital where he is admitted.
Deputy Medical Officer of the hospital Dr. Manish Rathi told TOI that they are giving high protein diet to the minor to treat malnutrition. Dr Rathi said, “A counselor is trying to help her as she is in shock.”
The minor, who came to the city with her maternal uncle in May 2022, was hired by the couple about five months ago through a placement agency in Delhi. A joint team of police personnel and the One-Stop Crisis Center rescued her on 7 February.
The minor’s mother, who had gone to the city with the AHTU team, said on Friday that they had to send her for work in the NCR as they are a “poor” tribal family and needed money.
“My daughter studies till Class VIII. She had to leave because we needed money. My husband is a laborer and we have 2-3 acres of land but we cannot cultivate it as it falls in the forest. My Bhai told me he could arrange a job for him, so we sent him here last year.”
She said that she could not talk to her daughter for the past few months as she does not have a mobile phone. She said, “I didn’t know she was in so much pain here. I came to know when the police came to my house and told me everything.”
The mother, who spoke in her native language that an official helped translate, said her 20-year-old elder daughter had come to NCR a few years ago for work, but they were not in touch.
AHTU in-charge Pankaj Kumar told TOI that the team will wait till the teenager is fit to go back home. On the police investigation so far, Kumar said that an FIR has been lodged against the couple Manish Khattar (36) And his wife Kamaljit Kaur (34), residents of the New Colony – appeared to have “covered all aspects and had enough”.
“As per her Aadhaar card, she is 15 years old, but we have asked her school to send her birth certificate for verification,” Kumar said. It has been said in the FIR that the age of the minor is 17 years.
Khattar, who works with an insurance company, and Kaur, a PR executive, have been booked under IPC sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 34 (common intention), section 12 (sexual harassment) Has been done Relevant provisions of the Offenses against Children (POCSO) Act and the Juvenile Justice Act.
An ENT specialist performed a surgical procedure to treat her clot and a second procedure is expected two days later. The minor’s employers, a couple with corporate jobs from whom she was fired, were arrested earlier this week.
the girl who was brought NCR from Simdega district of Jharkhand and hired as domestic help and Midwife The couple told the police that she was brutally tortured and tortured. She alleged that she was not only slapped and hit with iron rods, but also thrashed with iron tongs and cut with blades. She was not given proper food, due to which she was forced to eat the leftovers.
Following the intervention of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, a team from the eastern state’s Anti Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) reached the city on Thursday to take the minor back home, but was told that she was in no condition to travel.
“The patient is suffering from subdural hematomas which developed soon after a severe head injury. We removed his clot in a surgical procedure. After two days, we will again see what needs to be done,” said Dr . Jay SinghENT surgeon in the government hospital where he is admitted.
Deputy Medical Officer of the hospital Dr. Manish Rathi told TOI that they are giving high protein diet to the minor to treat malnutrition. Dr Rathi said, “A counselor is trying to help her as she is in shock.”
The minor, who came to the city with her maternal uncle in May 2022, was hired by the couple about five months ago through a placement agency in Delhi. A joint team of police personnel and the One-Stop Crisis Center rescued her on 7 February.
The minor’s mother, who had gone to the city with the AHTU team, said on Friday that they had to send her for work in the NCR as they are a “poor” tribal family and needed money.
“My daughter studies till Class VIII. She had to leave because we needed money. My husband is a laborer and we have 2-3 acres of land but we cannot cultivate it as it falls in the forest. My Bhai told me he could arrange a job for him, so we sent him here last year.”
She said that she could not talk to her daughter for the past few months as she does not have a mobile phone. She said, “I didn’t know she was in so much pain here. I came to know when the police came to my house and told me everything.”
The mother, who spoke in her native language that an official helped translate, said her 20-year-old elder daughter had come to NCR a few years ago for work, but they were not in touch.
AHTU in-charge Pankaj Kumar told TOI that the team will wait till the teenager is fit to go back home. On the police investigation so far, Kumar said that an FIR has been lodged against the couple Manish Khattar (36) And his wife Kamaljit Kaur (34), residents of the New Colony – appeared to have “covered all aspects and had enough”.
“As per her Aadhaar card, she is 15 years old, but we have asked her school to send her birth certificate for verification,” Kumar said. It has been said in the FIR that the age of the minor is 17 years.
Khattar, who works with an insurance company, and Kaur, a PR executive, have been booked under IPC sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 34 (common intention), section 12 (sexual harassment) Has been done Relevant provisions of the Offenses against Children (POCSO) Act and the Juvenile Justice Act.