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Employer held for harassing minor

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Rescued girl sent to a rehabilitation centre at Kavadiguda

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IN SAFE HANDS: Padma, who was tortured at work, rescued in Bowenpally on Sunday.

HYDERABAD: A minor girl, who was allegedly harassed by her employer, was rescued by Legal Metrology Controller Tejdeep Kaur Menon in Bowenpally on Sunday. The police later arrested the girl’s employer B. Mahesh, a readymade garments stockist.

It all began when Tejdeep’s driver noticed the girl, A. Padma (9), of Mahbubnagar district wandering in Sowjanya Colony despite heavy rain on Saturday night. The driver then took the child to his house and offered her food. After much persuasion, Padma said she has been working as a domestic help in Mahesh’s house at Panchavati Colony in Bowenpally for the last six months. But, unable to tolerate constant abuse and torture by her master, she ran away on Wednesday and took shelter in a nearby temple for two days. The girl had bruises on her body.

Police alerted

“I immediately alerted the police when Mahesh approached me today morning to take the child back home,” said Tejdeep. She said that Padma was sent to a rehabilitation centre at Kavadiguda. Mahesh paid some paltry amount to her father Kuria Gookarna and brought her to the city. He was paying Rs.200 per month to Gookarna as salary.

Cases under Sections 317 (Exposure and abandonment of a child under 12 years by parent or person having care of it), 323 (causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code and Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act were booked against him.

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