Locked inside employer's house, minor domestic help rescued by DCW

The Delhi Commission for Women has rescued a 12-year-old girl from a locked west Delhi bungalow, whose owners allegedly employed her as a house help but did not pay wages and also beat her up, the women's panel said Thursday.

The Commission initiated the rescue Tuesday after it received a complaint on its helpline 181 that a girl was engaged as a housemaid in a Vikaspuri bungalow that belonged to a transport businessman.

The DCW said that when a joint team of its officials and the Delhi Police reached there, it found the girl was in the house that was locked from outside and the owners were not there.

The bungalow guards confirmed that the girl was employed as a maid in the house last year, the women's panel said.

On seeing the DCW team and police, a relative of the house owner came after a while and unlocked the door.

"She was alone at home and was extremely traumatised. On seeing the DCW team and police, she cried and asked for being rescued and pleaded to be taken back to her ...