Staff Reporter
A domestic worker was allegedly set on fire by the employer for demanding salary in Multan, on Thursday.
According to details, Umar Akram, a resident of Wapda Town, Multan, hired a boy Irashad as domestic worker. The domestic helper was reportedly not paid salary for around two months. Despite numerous requests, the employer did not pay him salary.
On Thursday, Umar Akram lost his temper when the domestic worker again requested him to pay his salary. He allegedly subjected the domestic worker to severe torture and then set him ablaze.
Neighbours informed the police after hearing the screams of the boy. Acting on the report, police rushed to the scene and shifted the victim to the hospital where he was being treated. Hospital sources said that his condition was critical.
Meanwhile, the police have registered a case and apprehended the employer. Earlier on January 25, in yet another case, a 13-year-old female domestic helper had been brutally tortured by a landlord after she mistakenly broke a crockery item.
According to police, the female child had been recovered by the highway police personnel considering her as a missing child. On asking regarding her whereabouts, the minor girl had narrated the ordeal she had gone through at the residence of a former Nazim in People’s Colony No 2 of the city.
