Employers beat house help, chop her hair off

NEW DELHI: A 48-year-old woman, who worked as a domestic help in west Delhi’s Rajouri garden, was beaten and her hair chopped by her employer, the police said on Thursday.

The suspects have been identified as Abhineet (known by his first name) and Soni Kaur.

Deputy commissioner of police (west) Ghanshyam Bansal said that an FIR has been filed based on the victim’s complaint but nobody has been arrested yet.

DCP Bansal said information regarding a medico-legal case of a 48-year-old woman was received on May 17 from Safdarjung Hospital. “According to the MLC, the patient was brought to the casualty ward with physical assault by her employees,” he said, adding that her statement was recorded and she alleged that the employers beat her up and cut her hair.

The woman, who hails from Siliguri in West Bengal, started working at the couple’s fourth-floor house in Rajouri Garden in September 2021, said Parveen Kumar, the owner of the placement agency that facilitated the victim’s job.

“On May 15, around 9pm, the couple called and told me that she was ill and that I take her back. I told them to take her to a hospital, and that I would pick her up the next day,” he said.

The next day, the couple themselves dropped the woman off at Parveen’s home in south Delhi’s Taimoor Nagar, Kumar said, adding that she was in a “bad shape” and couldn’t walk.

“The couple said she had fallen and that her blood pressure was low, and left after that,” he said. At Taimoor Nagar, she stayed with some other helps and told them about the alleged assault by her employers.

Kumar said, “On May 17, I took her to Safdarjung Hospital. The doctors conducted a medical examination and informed the police,,” he said.