Employers ‘torture’ teenage house help

Accusing their maid of theft, the owners tormented maid and her family


Saleh Mughal April 16, 2024

RAWALPINDI:

Owners of a house in a private housing society brutally torture maid, husband and 14-year-old son on allegations of theft within the limits of Rawat Police station.

The owners, along with their two sons and four unknown persons, demonstrated inhumane behaviour by tormenting their house maid, her husband and her 14-year-old son.

The 14-year-old boy was filmed after being stripped, hung upside down and repeatedly submerged in water. Police have registered a case. However, one of the accused have yet been arrested.

Aqila, the maid, stated in her police report that she had been working as a domestic worker in the residence of Masmat Farzana Naveed in a private housing society for the past two and a half years. She reported that in the last week of March, their house was burgled.

Five days after the incident, the owner started accusing her, the maid described. She said that she tried to defend herself by pointing out that she had been working for so long and they had never had any complaints before.

She also stated that during the evenings, her husband used to accompany her because it would often get late, and she would have to return with him.

One day, when Aqila had already returned from work, Naveed, the husband of Masmat called and asked her to come back. Aqila then along her husband and 14-year-old son went back to their house.

She claimed that, once they were at the house, her employers separated my husband and son from me and started torturing them by stripping them naked. Hearing the cries of her husband and son, she began to plead with them, asking them to stop.

Masmat then grabbed her and took her to the upper floor, where, her two sons, Abbas and Baqir, and four unknown persons were also present. These people posed as CIA employees and they subjected her to severe torture while repeatedly threatening to shoot her while also making videos of her naked son being subjected to severe torture.

They kept threatening them, asking the maid and her family to admit to having burgled their house. They then took them to an unknown bungalow where there were other unknown armed persons waiting.

Highlight: The 14-year-old boy was stripped, hanged upside down and dunked in water repeatedly

Published in The Express Tribune, April 17th, 2024.

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