Spicezee Bureau
Mumbai: In a rather appalling episode of brutality against a juvenile, Urvashi, a small time TV actress, was arrested here on Saturday for cruelly abusing a 10-year-old girl child, who was employed as her domestic help.
According to reports, the arrest came after medical reports of the little girl confirmed the extent of abuse incurred on the child. The actress had inhumanly punched the girl in her eyes, which have been as a result left black and blue with unignorable bruised marks. The actress had apparently also burnt the child’s arm mercilessly.
The actress has now been booked under the Juvenile Justice Act and the Child Labour Act.
The victim in her statement said that the actress had brought her from Amravati, after telling her parents that she will send her to school in Mumbai. However, the actress made the girl work in her house and then abused her. The girl was locked up in the house for a week and when she finally was let out; the neighbours noticed the bruises and took her to the nearest police station.
Urvashi, who is being kept at the Amboli Police Station for now, is expected to be produced in the court later today. The girl is under the custody of the police and is awaiting the arrival of her parents.
First Published: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 11:15