By CT reporter

MANGALORE : A child girl working as a maid servant in one of the posh houses in a multi storied apartment located near Falnir has been reported to have sustained serious injuries with multiple bone fractures when she tried to escape from the physical torture by her employer during the early hours of Friday . The girl has been admitted to a hospital in the city.

The incident which would have otherwise gone unreported as the millionaire occupant of the plush home in the luxurious apartment ‘Casa Grande’, the hospital administration and the police have all tried to cover up the case, came to light due to the intervention of District Child Welfare Committee which upon gathering information from the journalist has registered a

case about the incident.

The girl who tried to escape from her tormentor by jumping from the fourth floor of the apartment has been identified as Ayesha. The girl whose pelvis has been completely dislocated currently is undergoing treatment at Unity Hospital in the city. The hospital is required to intimate any cases of accident being brought into the hospital to the police. In the event, the hospital covered up the entire case by not informing the police. It has also been reported the employer had also tried to cover up the case by holding out allurements to the members of the CWC who vested with the powers of a magistrate and to the journalists who had approached the employer to investigate the case.

The incident occurred in a posh multi-storied apartment ‘Casa Grande’, located near Capri Gudda cross of Attavar. An industrialist Abdul Salam occupies house no A 406 located in the fourth floor of the apartment. Ayesha (14) from Sirsi was working in this house as a maid.

It has been said that for the last so many days Ayesha who is working as a domestic help was not being allowed to go out of the house. Whenever the members of the household were required to go out Ayesha would be left behind at home and locked up. She had also been denied education by not allowing her to attend school.

Fed up by this ill-treatment Ayesha tried to escape from this home for good by jumping from the rear balcony of the house at about 1 a. m. on Friday. She had thrown all her clothes on to the ground below before she made an attempt to escape. In this attempt she was seriously hurt and admitted to Unity Hospital. Both the employer Abdul Salam and the Hospital authorities tried to cover up the incident by failing to inform this incident to the police. These are the facts that came to light from the preliminary investigation made by CWC which had registered a case based on the statement given by the girl.

Allurements by the employer

Even as CWC was investigating the incident the house owner Abdul Salam intervened and was reported to have requested the CWC to cover up the whole incident by offering unlimited monetary allurements to the CWC members. The CWC member Geo D’ Silva who refused to be bought by this industrialist immediately informed Kadri Police Station about the incident following which the Circle Inspector of Police Niranjana Raje Urs personally arrived at the hospital and took the statement from the girl. She has been reported to have reiterated the statement which she had earlier given to CWC. Later it was learnt that the ‘Casa Grande’ apartment where the incident occurred did not fall under the Kadri Police limits but fell under Pandeshwar Police limits. The journalists who were waiting for the arrival of Pandeshwar police were reportedly approached by the members of the household and dangled monetary allurements before them. By the time Pandeshwar police arrived at the hospital the girl apparently under threat from the employer had retraced her earlier statement and was reported to have said that she felt unconscious and fell. The age of the girl which was originally mentioned as 14 was changed to 17.

When the Pandeshwar Sub Inspector of Police was contacted in this regard, he was reported to have said “the child has not given any statement. She told that she would give a statement upon the arrival of her mother. We will wait till then before registering the FIR”. When the CT spoke to CWC they said “we have registered a suo motto case. We will conduct all judicial enquiries pertaining to all children within 16 years of age. The parents of the child have been ordered to be present before CWC”

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