A late-night po­lice op­er­a­tion led to the ar­rest of a woman and her teenage son af­ter they al­leged­ly kept Sabi­ta Bas­deo, a moth­er of two, against her will for months, beat­ing her and threat­en­ing to kill her when­ev­er she tried to leave to see her fam­i­ly.

Bas­deo, vis­i­bly bruised and shak­en, broke free and ran to Cpl Lee Lum and PC Ram­sar­ran short­ly af­ter ar­riv­ing at the Bar­rack­pore Po­lice Sta­tion with the two sus­pects on Sat­ur­day night, bring­ing an end to what in­ves­ti­ga­tors de­scribed as a case of false im­pris­on­ment and mod­ern-day slav­ery.

Po­lice said Bas­deo had in­juries to her face and hands. When ques­tioned, she told of­fi­cers the wounds had been in­flict­ed by the two in­di­vid­u­als who ac­com­pa­nied her.