Maid's 2-year-old burnt, hit to ‘drive out evil spirit', employer couple held
Mumbai: A two-year-old boy was singed and beaten up allegedly by a couple from Bhandup, for whom the child's mother worked as a domestic helper. The toddler has been admitted to hospital with burn injuries on the body, while the couple, who claimed they were into "spiritual healing" have been arrested.
The employer, Vaibhav Kokre, and his wife Harshada Gurav, had lured the boy's mother by offering her a better pay than what she used to get earlier. The woman, whose husband has been afflicted with paralysis, and has been undergoing treatment, agreed to work for the couple who are into the business of supplying mineral water, and also run a travel agency.
A police complaint lodged by the child's mother at Bhandup police station, Gargi Ganesh Kadam, the employer couple indulged in "physical violence, emotional manipulation, and theft".
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Last Sunday, the couple told the maid to move into their home with her child. Around 3.30 am, the couple woke the maid up to warn her of a "divine revelation" that her husband was plotting to harm her. That's where the maid's ordeal began. She has alleged that she was confined, her cellphone phone was taken away, and she was pressured to file a false complaint against her husband, according to the complaint lodged by the child's mother.
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On Tuesday, the employer couple beat up the toddler to "exorcise evil spirits from him", the police complaint lodged by the domestic helper states.
The wife allegedly pinned the child to the floor, yanking him by the hair, singeing him with a burning matchstick, and shouting that the boy was "possessed". The husband joined in, thrashing the child with a stick and a broom. The house help has alleged that the couple took away her mangalsutra worth Rs 34,000.,
and pawned it.
The baby's mother, though "traumatised", left the house early morning and took the child to a doctor before going to the police.
The couple, who claimed to work at the Thane Collector's office, are in police custody. They have been booked under sections of Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita and Maharashtra Prevention & Eradication of Human Sacrifice, Other Inhuman Agori Practices and Black Magic Act 2013.
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