BHOPAL: A woman employee of a government-funded shelter home, Ladli aashray grah , has been arrested for torturing a 5-year-old girl by inflicting burns on her for bed-wetting. A case has been registered in Bajaria police station on Monday.

Shelter home is run by an, NGO-NIWCYD Bachpan for vulnerable children. NGO has been funded by women and child development department.

Police said Rekha Ahirwar, who lives with her husband in Kolar, admitted her two daughters at the hostel in Shankaracharya Nagar on December 1 last month. Poor family would often visited the hostel to meet her daughters; one of them is 7.

On January 17, she took them home and spotted burns on her younger daughter’s private parts. She noticed the injuries while the 5-year-old was taking bath. Rekha, inquired about it on which minor explained how she was tortured by the staff for bed-wetting. She later lodged a complaint with the police.

Rekha went to the hostel and questioned Kalawati, the woman employee on which she said it was done to stop the minor from bed-wetting.

