RANCHI: A 15-year-old
tribal girl from Gumla was rescued from a house in Delhi on Saturday where she has been working as a domestic help for the last six months.
Talking to TOI over phone, the girl said, "I was forced to give body massages to all members of the family and made to do all household work from 6am to 11pm every day. I was not allowed to take even a minute's rest even when I was unwell."
When the rescue team, which included officers of
Delhi Police, members of
Delhi Commission for Women and voluntary organisation Shakti Vahini, arrived at the address where the girl was being kept, the employer first denied her presence in the house.
As the team was talking to the employer, they heard the employer's son telling the girl to hide. It was then that the team went inside the house and rescued the girl from a locked room on the second floor.
When the team tried to rescue the girl, the employer's family members started a scuffle and claimed that they had taken services of the girl by paying a placement agency Rs 42,000. The employers wanted their money back if the girl was being taken away.
The girl's case was forwarded to Shakti Vahini by Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of Gumla. Its
Gumla sub-inspector Satyam Kumar told TOI, "A general diary entry has been made at AHTU. When the girl returns home, we will lodge FIRs against the employers and the traffickers."
During her counseling, the girl revealed that she went to her maternal grandmother's house when she was drugged and trafficked by two women and a man. She informed that when she woke up, she found herself at a placement agency in Delhi.