MALACCA: Effective next month, you may receive a “friendly” visit from officers of the Immigration and labour departments to check on possible maid abuse.The officers who conduct these random visits will check on the maids’ welfare and working conditions as well as get feedback from the employers on the maids’ well-being.Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam said the visits would be friendly...
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KLANG: Malaysian households may be able to employ Indonesian domestic maids again by next month.Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam said discussions were underway between Malaysia and Indonesia to iron out some issues.“Once this is done, the maids can come again,” Dr Subramaniam told newsmen yesterday. He was in Klang to give away school uniforms to Tamil school children from low-income...
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MOHALI: A 20-year-old maid reportedlycommitted suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan of heremployer’s house during the wee hours of Saturday. According to police,the deceased, identified as Renu, had been working at the Phase IV house sinceJanuary this year.‘The police were called early morning whenthe maid failed to open the kitchen door. Cops reached the house and broke openthe door to...
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Singapore - A Singapore court has convicted a woman of abusing her Indonesian maid by scalding the helper's genitals with boiling water, helping to pull out her teeth, hitting her with a metal rod and threatening to kill her, a media report said Thursday.Maselly Ab Aziz, 38, is due to be sentenced next Wednesday, the Straits Times newspaper reported.Her two children and lover had already been jailed...
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Mayor M.V. Ratna Bindu interacting with girls at an awareness programme in Vijayawada on Sunday. —VIJAYAWADA: Stressing the need for conducting special drives to rescue girls working as maids, Mayor M.V. Ratna Bindu on Sunday called upon the parents to make better use of the special schemes launched by the State government for the welfare of the girl child.Addressing an awareness programme for girls,...
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today arrested a high official of Reserve Bank of India and his wife allegedly for torturing their maid, who was hospitalised in a critical condition.Manjari Naik, the 15-year-old maid was allegedly denied food and water for two days and kept confined in a room of the couple's flat in the city's Alipore area. She later managed to escape on Thursday night by climbing down a rainwater pipe, police said.The...
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Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian court on Friday charged a man with the murder of his Indonesian maid, who died after allegedly being abused.The magistrate's court in the central Klang district charged 35-year-old A. Murugan with murdering Mautik Hani, 36, at his home, the official Bernama news agency said.Mautik, who comes from Surabaya, was rescued on October 19 after being locked in a toilet for two days....
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Delhi Police today claimed to have arrested three people, including two maids, accused of robbing their employer of cash and gold jewellery worth more than Rupees 10 lakh.''Police have arrested Savita (28) and Kuppiya (35) for stealing valuables from their employer's house in Ashok Vihar, Phase-III,'' Deputy Commissioner of Police (North-West) N S Bundela said.Raj Kumar, alias Chaddha (37), Savita's...
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Truth prevails! Not many would like to vouch for it, but 38-year-old pan-shop owner Krishna Upadhyay would remember it for the rest of his life.He was accused of committing rape, all evidences pointed against him and efforts were made to frame him. But Upadhyay fought through the case to prove his innocence, and finally the Surat sessions court acquitted him of all charges.According to information,...
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Well don’t be surprised or shocked as we are talking about her stint in Balaji’s venture Bayttaab Dil Kee Tamanna Hai on Sony. The actress who got to fame as Khemi in Bandini, Leena Jumani is essaying the role of the maid which depicts the famous Shiney Ahuja rape case.“Yes it’s a cameo of few days and last night only I finished my stint with the show. I essay the role of maid who is the victim as...
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