Pakistan Police
Pakistan: Police rescue minor maid who was kept in chains by her employer
Faisalabad’s Madina Town police of Pakistan have recovered a nine-year-old maid from a house in Eden Valley locality who was kept in chains by her employers, media reports said on Friday.
Faisalabad City Police Officer (CPO) Omer Saeed Malik told the media as quoted by Dawn News that a call was received on police helpline 15 about a minor maid, who had been kept in chains in a house in Eden Valley and being badly tortured by her employers and house owners.
On being informed of the call, the CPO said he directed Madina Town SP and Peoples Colony DSP to raid the house and rescue the girl.
Accordingly, he said, the officers leading a police party raided the house and recovered the chained girl, besides arresting the house owner, Asif and his wife, Aliya Bibi.
He said an FIR was registered against the couple on the complaint of the Child Protection and Welfare Bureau (CPWB) officer Robina Iqbal Cheema under sections 328- A, 344 and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and section 34 of The Punjab Destitute and Neglected Children Act 2004.
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