mobanmarketA couple from Gurugram, Haryana, who was arrested by the police on Wednesday for allegedly sexually assaulting, starving and torturing their domestic help, has now been terminated by their employers.
Manish Khattar, who worked with Max Life Insurance and his wife Kamaljeet Kaur, employed with Media Mantra, a PR firm, were sacked after the duo was arrested for inflicting inhuman torture on their 17-year-old domestic help.
This 14 yr old girl has been brutally beaten up by an educated couple in Gurgaon. No body part that’s not tortured. They cut her, beat her, burnt her with chimta. She had to eat food from dustbin. She was rescued after i raised an SOS & approached @PreetiBDalal@cmohry @NCPCR_ pic.twitter.com/qiWYTOwnxe
— Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj (@DeepikaBhardwaj) February 7, 2023
“As an organisation we have decided to sack @kamaljeetkaur_ with immediate effect,” Udit Sagar Pathak, the founder of Media Mantra, said.
As an organisation we have decided to sack @kamaljeetkaur_ with immediate effect.
— Udit Sagar Pathak (@UditPathak06) February 8, 2023
Couple fired by employers
“We are shocked to learn about the human rights and child abuse allegations against Kamaljeet Kaur. As an organization, we respect the Indian legal system and are strictly against any form of human rights abuse. The company has terminated her services with immediate effect,” Media Mantra later said in a statement on Twitter.
We are shocked to learn about the human rights and child abuse allegations against Kamaljeet Kaur. As an organization, we respect the Indian legal system and are strictly against any form of human rights abuse. The company has terminated her services with immediate effect.
— Media Mantra (@mediamantrapr) February 8, 2023
In an official statement on their Twitter handle, Max Life Insurance said, “Max Life believes in upholding high levels of ethical and moral conduct at all times. We have severed the employment of the individual with immediate effect.”
Hired to take care of daughter
The domestic help, originally from Jharkhand, was employed by the couple through a placement agency around five months ago to take care of their three-and-a-half-year-old daughter.
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According to the FIR, the girl is 17 years old and not 14, as told by a police officer earlier.
Physical, sexual abuse and starvation
Pinky Malik, the in-charge of the Sakhi centre – who, along with police, rescued the girl and filed the complaint against the couple, said they would not let her sleep in the night and did not give her food. “Her mouth was completely swollen while injury marks were found everywhere on her body,” she said.
She told the police that the victim was forced to survive on leftover scraps thrown in the dustbin.
The victim said she was humiliated and beaten every day. Heated iron tongs were allegedly used on her.
Khattar used to strip her naked and hurt her on her private parts, according to the FIR. The victim said the couple confined her at their house and did not allow her to talk to her family.
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Accused arrested
She was rescued by the police based on a complaint filed by the Gurugram-based NGO.
Following this, an FIR was registered 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 New Colony police station and the couple was arrested.
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