Girl help found burnt to death, locals vandalise Mangolpuri house

According to police, the 17-year-old domestic help has been working at the house of a software engineer in Dipali Enclave of Mangolpuri for over a year now. Police said she lived in slum cluster off Parwana Road and reported for work every day around 3 pm.

J B Jain, president of the RWA, said, “On Wednesday, the girl reached her employer’s house earlier than usual — around 2 pm. Nearly two hours later, the employer’s wife came running out of the house and informed the guard of our building that smoke was billowing from her bathroom. When the guard went in, he saw that the door, which was latched from inside, broken open and the girl’s body with severe burn injuries lying on the bathroom floor. Her employer called the help’s father and asked him to come at once. When the girl’s farther reached the house, he was shown the body of his daughter.”

The family also alerted the police control room and the girl was rushed to Sanjay Gandhi Hospital where she was declared dead on arrival.

Meanwhile, as news about the incident spread, residents gathered outside the house around 5 pm and began pelting stones and breaking windowpanes and flower pots.

They also broke the front gate of the house. Police teams were called in and they resorted to lathicharge and tear gas shell firing to disperse the crowd.