India, Nov. 8 -- A 16-year-old girl working as a domestic help was rescued from a house in southeast Delhi's Shaheen Bagh after allegedly being confined, starved and subjected to brutal physical abuse by her illegal employer for nearly a year, police said on Saturday.

Police said they registered a case at Shaheen Bagh police station on Wednesday under relevant sections of the Juvenile Justice Act and arrested the accused, a 45-year-old woman.

A police officer aware of the matter said that, after her rescue, the teenager told a child welfare committee (CWC) she was allegedly forced to work from 6am to 2am every day, branded with a hot iron and a heated knife, and beaten over minor mistakes. She also described being denied food and water ...