According to police, the girl has bruises, including on her face, and burn wounds on her hip.
A team of police rescued her after a neighbour of Sweety s employer shared her photographs on social media which a journalist later forwarded to the police s official Facebook page, Sohel Rana, assistant inspector general (Media) of Police Headquarters, told The Daily Star.
Sweety. Photo: collected
Police detained the couple Tanvir Ahsan and his wife Advocate Nahid who employed the victim, from a disadvantaged family in Kishoreganj s Mithamoin Upazila, nine months back, he said.
Jahangir Hossain, a sub-inspector of Shahbagh Police Station, said the girl told police that the couple used to torture her on regular basis over trivial matter.