KUTOKA UDOSINI-Orphan assaulted by her master to undergo surgery.

Hyderabad, May 19 (PTI) Eight-year-old Rajitha, an orphan who was allegedly beaten up mercilessly by a couple with whom she worked as domestic help in Mahabubnagar district, has been shifted to Osmania General Hospital here for a surgery. Ranjitha, was last month admitted to a government hospital in Mahabubnagar after being "battered and bruised" by her employers and was severely malnutritioned, officials said.

"Rajitha was shifted to Niloufer hospital in Hyderabad from Mahabubnagar on May 13, from where she has now been referred to Osmania General Hospital for a surgery to be carried out on her left hand elbow joint injury," an official of the Women and Child Development Department told PTI over phone from Mahabubnagar. Rajitha was admitted to a Residential Bridge Course (RBC) centre, run by one Premnath, at Bhutpur in the district a few years ago.
Premnath shut the centre about six months ago for alleged want of funds from the government. All the inmates except Rajitha and two other minor orphans returned to their parents.
Premnath sent Rajitha to Bhutpur as a domestic servant in the house of one Narayana where he and wife allegedly beat her mercilessly as she could not do the household work assigned to her, resulting in broken bones. Following a complaint by officials of the Women and Child Development department, the trio were arrested on May 8 and sent in judicial remand.
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