The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) in collaboration with the Delhi Police have rescued a minor girl who was working as a domestic help in an apartment in Dwarka. The 16-year-old was working in the apartment for the last ten years. An unidentified person called DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal and informed about the minor following which she immediately sent a team which along with the Delhi Police rescued the girl from the flat on Thursday evening, a DCW statement said.
The girl informed the commission that she was not even paid once in these ten years and was not even allowed to meet her family. The owners of the house in which the girl worked said the girl was employed through a placement agency and they paid her salary of Rs 3,000 directly to the placement agency, the DCW statement said.
The girl said she had come to Delhi with a relative and since then she had been working in the same house. The girl has been sent to a shelter home. On Friday, the Delhi police team and the commission took her to the Child Welfare Committee to record her statement.