MALDA, 10 JULY: Hundreds of women domestic helps today observed a ceasework in a large part of English Bazaar town in protest against an employer, who lodged a theft case with police against a domestic help.
Nearly 1,000 families in Abhirampur, Makdumpur, Bansulitala, Gour Road and adjoining areas missed their contractual domestic helps from this morning.
On Wednesday, an employer Mr P K Nandi, resident of Abhirampur, lodged a complaint against his domestic help Mrs Gouri Haldar when his family members found that ornaments weighing 30g were missing from the locker of an iron chest. The family members suspected their domestic help and allegedly blamed her for stealing the ornaments.
The domestic help, a resident of Sahapur in Old Malda block, informed local leaders and sought their help.
Yesterday evening, nearly 500 women domestic helps, all residents of Sahapur village, staged an agitation in front of the house of Mr PK Nandi demanding that the employer withdraw the case.
Finally, yesterday evening, Mr Nandi was pressured to withdraw the complaint.
One Mr Pandab Ghosh, the CPI-M panchayat member, led the domestic helps in this agitation, calling the cease-work today.
Many families in English Bazaar town on the bank of Mahananda, depend on domestic helps who come from Sahapur village, located on the opposite side of the river.
The leaders of the domestic helps decided to keep vigilance on the ‘supply line’ this morning and prevented many domestic helps from crossing the river. ;SNS
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