Following the complaint, police had registered an FIR against Seema Parta and has started searching for her.
Ranchi: A day after viral video of brutal torture of a domestic help, Jharkhand Police on Wednesday arrested suspended BJP leader Seema Parta. The accused, who is the wife of an ex-IAS officer, was on the run since the matter came into the light. Her involvement in torturing the maid and keeping in confinement for eight years was revealed when her son narrated the ordeal faced by maid Sunita to his friend who is a government official.
Following the complaint, police had registered an FIR against Seema Parta and had started searching for her. She was arrested from Ranchi and was produced before the magistrate from where she was sent to the judicial custody for 14 days. The accused, however, said that she is innocent and is being framed. While asking why she admitted her son to a hospital, she said that he is unwell.
After reports of a domestic help being brutally tortured by Seema Parta, the BJP had suspended her from all positions. The accused Seema Parta, wife of retired bureaucrat Maheshwar Patra, has tormented her maid who is from Tribal community. Parta is a member of the national working committee in BJP’s women wing and was earlier with Congress.
As per the report, Seema Parta had isolated the domestic help, Sunita, in a separate room at her house in Ranchi and was not giving her food and water. Various parts of her body have burn marks which were done by Seema Parta with a hot pan. The domestic help was forcibly confined in a bathroom for several years which was like a room and bathroom for her. Her teeth have also been broken with hard objects. In result of the brutal tortured, the victim is not able to speak from herself.
Since the matter came to light, police had rescued the maid and took her to the RIMS hospital for medical treatment where she is recuperating. Maid Sunita, a tribal woman, is from a village in Jharkhand Gumla. She had started working as a maid at the home of Maheshwar and Seema Parta in Jharkhand almost 10 years ago but was later sent to Vatsala Part’s home in Delhi. Vatsala Parta is sister of accused Seema Parta. Sunita then returned to Ranchi after their transfer. During this period, she was harassed, beaten up on many occasions. The she requested to go back to home was tortured for this also.
