Dhaka, June 18 -- A police couple in Khulna have been arrested after a teenage domestic worker was hospitalised following alleged torture in Sonadanga.

On Thursday, the teenager's mother filed a case with Sonadanga Model Police, according to officer Rafiqul Islam, chief of the station.

The arrestees are assistant sub-inspectors (ASI) Sanjay Mitra and Popy Mitra.

The teenager is under treatment at Khulna Medical College Hospital.

Her mother reportedly came to Khulna from her native home Narsingdi's Nishchintapur to file the case.

Witnesses attending a social event next to the couple's house reported seeing the girl being forced to squat while holding her ears on a balcony on Wednesday afternoon.

She was often beaten with a stick and ...