A minor girl hailing from Bangladesh, who was beaten up severely and abandoned in an isolated area, was rescued by passersby on Thursday and later taken to Kaggalipura police station.
Police sources said the girl was reportedly beaten up by her employer when she asked for her salary and insisted that she wanted to see her mother.
On Friday, the girl was produced before the Child Welfare Committee. “Every part of her body was injured. It also looked like someone had tried to strangulate her,” said a source. There were burns on the elbow and had severe head injuries.
With great difficulty, she told the committee members, with the help of a translator, that she used to work in a “bhaiya’s house” where there was “bhabhi and another child”. “It appears that she was trafficked and was working as domestic help in that house,” the source said.
The CWC directed the police to file an FIR against her employers and trace them.
The girl was later admitted to the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health Hospital.
The police, who recorded her statement, have managed to establish contact with her mother in Bangladesh.
‘It appears that she was trafficked and was working as domestic help’
