Bhubaneswar: The Childline and Twin City Commissionerate Police on Sunday rescued a 13-year-old girl who was reportedly working as a domestic help in a couple’s house in the Prachi Vihar area at Rasulgarh in Bhubaneswar.
According to sources, the minor girl’s parents had allowed her to work as domestic help at one Ashok Kumar Swain’s house. She was working in Swain’s house for the past three years.
Childline officials said that the girl’s parents who are labourers living in Kargil Basti, noticed some injury marks on the minor girl’s body.
She was produced before Additional CWC and shifted to an open shelter in the city. “A case has been registered and further action will be taken accordingly,” TNIE reported an officer of Mancheswar police station as saying.
