Minor domestic help falls from bldg while trying to escape torture: 4 held

block
Staff Reporter :
A minor domestic help got hurt falling from the sixth floor of a 13-storey building while trying to escape torture in the hands of the house owner in the city’s Dhanmondi area on Saturday.
Injured Sharif, 11, along with another house help Swapan, 11, was trying to escape the house of one Golam Kibria through a toilet ventilator around 9:30 am, said Md Kajal Mia, Senior Station Officer of the Fire Service and Civil Defence in
Mohammadpur. While, trying to escape, Sharif fell down on the gorund and was seriously injured and Swapan got stuck on the sunshade of the fifth floor, he said.
Locals rescued Sharif and rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. The firefighters went to the spot at Dhanmondi 14/A and rescued Swapon from the sunset.
The family members used to keep them confined in the house and inflict torture, police said quoting the victims.
Abdullahil Kafi, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of Ramna Division said that four members of the family, including house owner Golam Kibria and his wife, were detained in this connection.
block