Rab members yesterday rescued a minor domestic help, tortured severely by her employers, from a house on Dilu Road in the capital’s Ramna area.
The law enforcers arrested her employers Moshiur Rahman Titu, a trader, and his wife. They were handed over to Ramna police.
The victim, ten-year-old Sohagi Akhter, daughter of Aynal Hossain of Gopalganj, was admitted to One Stop Crisis Centre (OCC) at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
Bilkis Begum, coordinator of OCC at the DMCH, said there were injury marks all over Sohagi’s body.
The victim told the law enforcers that Titu’s wife Lima Begum often beat her severely with iron rod for making small mistakes. Lima poured boiling water on her on Saturday.
Assistant Superintendent of Police Kudrat-e-Khuda of Rab-3 said Titu’s neighbours informed them over the phone that a domestic help had been tortured severely at his house.
Rab-3 sent to the area its intelligence team that confirmed the information.
Titu and his wife Lima told the police that they at times slapped Sohagi for failing to do daily chores properly and stealing things. But they denied torturing her severely.
Sohagi started working in Titu’s house 17 months back, said Shiblee Noman, officer-in-charge of Ramna Police Station.
A case was filed against the couple with the police station, he said.
