Minor girl working as housemaid rescued in Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar: A 9-year-old girl was rescued by the joint rescue Operation of Access to Justice team of Ruchika Social Service Organisation and Chandrasekharpur Police from the Sailashree Vihar area of Bhubaneswar yesterday.
The minor girl was reportedly rescued from the house of one Subhendu Pattanaik and Lopamudra Pattanaik, residing at Plot No.VIM-328 in Sailashree Vihar.
It is learned that the child belongs to Joda in Keonjhar district and she has lost her father. The mother was initially working in the employer’s house earlier at Joda. The child was studying in Class-3 at her village school.
The employer allegedly trafficked the girl in the name of putting her into the school but employed her as child labour at their home. As the child says, she was cleaning utensils and house and helping the employer in other household chores.
After rescue, the child has been produced before a single member of Additional Child Welfare Committee in the evening and by order of Additional CWC, she was placed at VJSS Open Shelter. Counseling is going on. Ruchika will file an FIR in the Chandrasekharpur Police station, said sources.
