Minor domestic worker held captive in Gurugram | The seamy side of India’s millennium city

Yet another minor working as a domestic help has been brutalised in Gurugram. It is not just underage employment and torture, but also a daily struggle of inadequate pay and unmet basic human needs that people who provide informal but essential services go through

IN Gurugram’s upscale, residential Sector 57, just a stone’s throw from the city’s malls and glass-and-steel corporate offices, a teenage girl workingas a domestic help was rescued from her employers last week, after sixmonths of captivity. The family of three that held her captive, including a woman and her adult sons in their 30s, had allegedly burnt her with acid, stripped her naked and filmed her, threatened to push her into prostitution, sexually abused her, hit her with hammers, and instigated their dog to bite her. In WhatsApp groups across gated communities in Delhi’s shiny suburb though, none of this was discussed. The ongoing chatter about ‘maids’ making ‘unreasonable’ demands carried on.

Women — many of them girls — are routinely exploited by their well-off employers in the National Capital Region. What changes is the degree of exploitation. This is not the only case this year. In February, a PR professional and an insurance company employee were accused of sexually harassing their help in Gurugram’s New Colony

Courtesy : the hindu

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