Couple held for torturing 12-year-old house help in Dhaka’s Topkhana Road area

Police last night detained a couple from Dhaka's Topkhana Road area on charge of torturing their house help.

During the drive, the law enforcers also rescued the victim, a minor, who has several injury marks.

Sweety, 12, was admitted to one-stop crisis centre at Dhaka Medical College Hospital for treatment.

According to police, the girl has bruises, including on her face, and burn wounds on her hip.

A team of police rescued her after a neighbour of Sweety's employer shared her photographs on social media which a journalist later forwarded to the police's official Facebook page, Sohel Rana, assistant inspector general (Media) of Police Headquarters, told The Daily Star.

Police detained the couple -- Tanvir Ahsan and his wife Advocate Nahid -- who employed the victim, from a disadvantaged family in Kishoreganj's Mithamoin Upazila, nine months back, he said. 

Jahangir Hossain, a sub-inspector of Shahbagh Police Station, said the girl told police that the couple used to torture her on regular basis over trivial matter.

"We called the victim's family to Dhaka. Filing of a case is underway," he said.