New Delhi: A housing society in Noida witnessed heavy stone pelting by the relatives and neighbours of a maid who worked in the flats of the apartment. According to the initial reports, the relatives of the maid created ruckus at Mahagun Society of Sector 78 in Noida after she was allegedly held captive and beaten up for "stealing" from a flat. The attackers gathered outside the society and started pelting stones.

Policemen were deployed on the apartment premises after the attack.

Noida police had to intervene after the local villagers barged into the premises of Mahagun Moderne in Noida’s Sector 78 on Wednesday morning to protest against the alleged beating up of a domestic help by one of the residents. The protesters, reportedly neighbours of the woman, claimed she was allegedly confined at her employers’ house earlier.

Noida: Locals hold protest outside a residential complex in Sec-76 after reports of a maid being kept captive in a house inside the complex
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The protesters, it is learnt, had begun trooping inside the society at 7 am. They had also reportedly blocked the Dadri-Surajpur-Chhalera road at Barola, leadind to halting of traffic near Noida Phase 2 Industrial Area. A police posse has been deployed outside the apartment after the incident and trying to bring the situation under control. Superintendent of Police (city) Arun Kumar Singh was quoted by Hindustan Times as saying that the protesters were angry over the domestic help allegedly being beaten up.

A Facebook post identified the help as 26-year-old Zohra. The post claims that Zohra was missing for a day following a fight with her employer and was finally found in the boot of her employer’s car.