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Maid accuses techie of torture, two domestic helps rescued

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Press Trust of India Noida
Last Updated : Jan 20 2013 | 3:44 AM IST

14-year-old Munni, who was hired as domestic help through a placement agency by Meenakshi Singh, alleged that she was beaten up by her employer over minor mistakes.

Singh, a software engineer with a private company and resident of Sector 62 Swagat Apartment, and her husband would also lock her in a room and leave her starving as punishment, she alleged.

On Saturday, Munni escaped from the house and was taken to a police station by some persons where she narrated her woes.

"A case was lodged against the couple and the woman was arrested last evening and granted bail after a few hours," said Yogesh Singh, Superintendent of Police (City).

Also, Greater Noida police raided a paying guest accommodation today and rescued two domestic helps held captive their.

Babu Yadav, about 18 years of age, was being made to work as cook without any salary by his employer for the last six months, police said.

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When Yadav tried to leave, he was help captive by his employer. He informed his brother Billoo who tried to rescue his brother was was also forcibly held in the house by the PG owner.

Their relative then lodged an FIR at Kasna against the employer.

"We have rescued the two servants from a locked room at PG house. They have been sent for medical examination as they have injuries on their bodies," police said, adding a case has been registered against the PG owner who was absconding.

There have been a string of cases of domestic helps being abused including the shocking instance of a doctor couple locking up a young maid without food in their house while they went abroad for a vacation.

Last month, a 25-year-old man was arrested for allegedly repeatedly raping the family's teenaged maid over a period of two years and beating her in Jamia Nagar area in the capital

  

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First Published: May 27 2012 | 5:25 PM IST

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