Nanny drank phenyl to escape torture by Vinod Kambli, wife

Former cricketer Vinod Kambli and his wife have been charged for torturing and locking up their domestic help who drank phenyl allegedly in a bid to escape the harsh treatment meted out by themAlso read FIR against Vinod Kambli wife for allegedly misbehaving with maidVinod Kambli and his wife Andrea File picThe Bandra police have registered an FIR against the couple on the word of their nanny Soni Nafesingh Sarsal 30 who claimed that they would often withhold her salary and would threaten to thrash her in public if she pushed her caseSoni told midday that she had been hired as a nanny for the two Kambli children for a monthly salary of R10000 However when she would ask them for money she never got more than Rs 500 to Rs 1000 at a timeAlso Read Vinod Kambli abuses Sidhu and Shoaib Akhtar on Twitter blames friendI started working at their residence some two years ago and since then they havent paid me my full salary Whenever I asked them for it they would assault me brutally and not let me go home she alleged adding that the couple had also confiscated her phone and passport so she couldnt escape to her house in Bharat Nagar in Bandra EastThings came to a head last week however when they locked her up in the house and went away for three days I was not allowed to go home for ten days and when I said I wanted to leave they assaulted me with their bare hands Then they locked me inside their house and left me there for three days Soni recalledAccording to the police when the family returned on Friday Vinod and his wife Andrea were drunk and they began to assault herSoni drank phenyl in a fit of frustration and said to them Kill me now She managed to escape and got admitted at Bhabha Hospital When her family approached us early on Saturday morning we went to the hospital to take her statement said a cop attached to the caseAfter constant harassment from them my sister got fed up with the Kamblis and drank phenyl They got scared that Soni would die in their home and they let her goShe immediately went to the hospital alleged Sonis sister AishaSoni who was discharged from the hospital yesterday claimed that she was frequently beaten up or threat ened for all kinds of reasons such as the times when Vinod had asked her to fetch alcohol from the liquor storeWhen I refused he threatened to take me to my neighbourhood and publicly thrash me there Soni claimedIrregular workerAccording to Andrea however Soni was irregular at work and would keep asking for money on some pretext or the other We didnt pay her full salary because she would miss work frequently and would also keep asking for advance claiming some or the other relative was unwell We have never hit her if this were true there are cameras at our house that would have captured all of this she told middayRead Story Bank names and shames loan defaulter Vinod KambliMumbai Police spokesperson DCP Dhananjay Kulkarni confirmed that an FIR had been registered against the Kamblis under Sections 343 wrongful confinement for three or more days 504 intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace 506 punishment for criminal intimidation and 34 acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention of the Indian Penal CodeWe have registered the offence and the investigation is in progress We are yet to record the statements of the accused party and if they are found guilty they will be arrested he said