India, June 22 -- Two days after International Domestic Workers Day, Manish Gupta, a 50-year-old dermatologist, reportedly frustrated by his wife's refusal to sack their domestic worker for bringing "bad energy" to the house, took a bat to Meena Halder, knocked her unconscious and then allegedly stabbed her repeatedly with a knife.

Found squatting near her body at his home in Delhi's Kailash Hills, Gupta is said to have confessed to killing Meena Halder, a 45-year-old domestic worker from Kolkata who had worked with his family for over 10 years. It is reported that he was on anti-depressants.

The crime, once again, focuses attention on the precarity of the lives of domestic workers in Delhi and across the country.

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