Gurugram: A couple was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly torturing and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl who worked for them as a domestic help, police said.
The accused, Manish Khattar (36) and his wife Kamaljeet Kaur (34), were produced before a city court on Wednesday. The court sent Khattar to two-day police remand while his wife was sent to judicial custody.
A joint team of police and Sakhi, a one-stop crisis center, on Tuesday, rescued the girl hired by the couple to care for their three-and-a-half-year-old daughter. Several injuries were found on her hands, feet and mouth, they said.
According to the complaint filed by Pinky Malik, the Sakhi center in-charge, the girl from Ranchi (Jharkhand) was hired through a placement agency.
The couple made her work and also beat her mercilessly daily. Along with not letting her sleep the whole night, they also didn’t give her any food. Her mouth was completely swollen while injury marks were found everywhere on her body, Malik alleged.
The girl has been admitted to a hospital in critical condition. She is still being treated, police said.
According to the police, the arrested couple are residents of New Colony. Kaur is a public relations officer with a private firm while her husband works with an insurance company.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the couple hired the girl five months ago to take care of their child. During this period, they would beat her daily. She was also sexually harassed, the police said.
The child used to eat leftover food thrown in the dustbin.
An FIR was registered against the couple under sections 323 (causing hurt), 342 (wrongful confinement) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act and the POCSO Act at the New Colony police station.
“We have arrested the accused couple who confessed to the crime,” said Inspector Dinkar, the SHO of New Colony police station.
