Maid assault case: Bail denied to women exec accused of torture
8 Oct 2013 6:35 PM GMT
A Delhi court Monday rejected the bail plea of a woman who was arrested for allegedly torturing and illegally confining her teenage domestic help in Vasant Kunj.
Metropolitan magistrate Gomati Manocha dismissed the bail plea of the accused, 50-year-old Vandana Dhir, and directed the jail authorities to provide psycho analysis therapy and counselling to her. Dhir at present is in judicial custody.
The court said it seems Dhir is ‘suffering from some kind of a personality disorder and the facts of the case demonstrate very sick and a problematic mental state of the accused.’
Dhir and placement agent Dorothy, who are in judicial custody, have been arrested.
Dhir, who was working with a multinational firm in Noida, has been accused of assaulting her domestic help, beating her and branding her with a hot girdle.
The maid, who hails from Jharkhand, was also forced to drink her urine and was kept by Dhir in her Vasant Kunj house in a semi-naked condition, the victim has claimed.
She was rescued by a joint team of NGO Shakti Vahini and Delhi police from Dhir’s residence on the evening of 30 September. Neighbours found her shrieks intolerable and informed the police.
The court said a legislation regulating placement agencies, through which domestic helps are recruited, is urgently required. Denying bail to Dhir, the court observed: ‘The placement agencies existing today have become havens of exploitation and are unable to ensure the wellbeing of the work force employed through them and many of these young boys and girls become the subject of physical and sexual abuse.’
‘To bring about a positive change so that such incidents do not recur and also to protect basic human right of this large but marginalised and exploited work force, a legislation is much needed requiring mandatory registration of placement agencies, etc.’
Metropolitan magistrate Gomati Manocha dismissed the bail plea of the accused, 50-year-old Vandana Dhir, and directed the jail authorities to provide psycho analysis therapy and counselling to her. Dhir at present is in judicial custody.
The court said it seems Dhir is ‘suffering from some kind of a personality disorder and the facts of the case demonstrate very sick and a problematic mental state of the accused.’
Dhir and placement agent Dorothy, who are in judicial custody, have been arrested.
Dhir, who was working with a multinational firm in Noida, has been accused of assaulting her domestic help, beating her and branding her with a hot girdle.
The maid, who hails from Jharkhand, was also forced to drink her urine and was kept by Dhir in her Vasant Kunj house in a semi-naked condition, the victim has claimed.
She was rescued by a joint team of NGO Shakti Vahini and Delhi police from Dhir’s residence on the evening of 30 September. Neighbours found her shrieks intolerable and informed the police.
The court said a legislation regulating placement agencies, through which domestic helps are recruited, is urgently required. Denying bail to Dhir, the court observed: ‘The placement agencies existing today have become havens of exploitation and are unable to ensure the wellbeing of the work force employed through them and many of these young boys and girls become the subject of physical and sexual abuse.’
‘To bring about a positive change so that such incidents do not recur and also to protect basic human right of this large but marginalised and exploited work force, a legislation is much needed requiring mandatory registration of placement agencies, etc.’
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