DCW rescues minor from domestic labour

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New Delhi, May 16: The Delhi Commission For Women (DCW) on Monday rescued a 13-year-old orphan girl from a house in northwest Delhi’s GTB Nagar who was being inhumanely treated and forced to work as a domestic help, it said in a statement.
The women rights body received the information through an anonymous source on its helpline 181. The caller said that the girl was being ill-treated and beaten up regularly by the family, it said.
According to the statement, the DCW is in the process of sending a notice to Delhi Police seeking immediate registration of FIR and arrests in the matter. (PTI)

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