NEW DELHI: A mob thrashed a pilot and her husband, also an online staff, for physically assaulting a ten-year-old girl working as a domestic help in their house. The incident happened at Dwaraka in Delhi. The locals thrashed the pilot when she was in her uniform. The video of it had circulated in the social media. The video shows women dragging her by pulling her hair. Her husband was also attacked.
The girl had been working in their house for the last two months. The incident came to light after her relatives noticed some marks on her body. Soon her relatives reached their house and assaulted the couple.
#WATCH | A woman pilot and her husband, also an airline staff, were thrashed by a mob in Delhi's Dwarka for allegedly employing a 10-year-old girl as a domestic help and torturing her.
— ANI (@ANI) July 19, 2023
The girl has been medically examined. Case registered u/s 323,324,342 IPC and Child Labour… pic.twitter.com/qlpH0HuO0z
Police reached the spot and took the couple into custody. A case has been registered and police said that more investigation would be conducted. The case was registered under sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 370 (buying or disposing of any person as a slave) of the Indian Penal Code, Child Labour Act and section 75 of Juvenile Justice Act. A counselling was conducted on the girl and she will be sent for a medical examination.