ISLAMABAD: The Additional Sessions Judge Raja Khurram Ali Khan and his wife on Monday denied torturing the 10-year-old maid Tayyaba. The judge and his wife in their statement said that they had hired Tayyaba to take care of their baby. The judge in a statement said that his wife was a kind-hearted person and she treated Tayyaba like her own child. He said that he paid Rs 12,000 to the parents of the girl and had filed a missing report the very next day when Tayyaba went missing on December 27. The Islamabad Police submitted their report along with statements of the suspects to the Supreme Court. The alleged torture of the child maid caught the media’s attention after she was recovered from the residence of Raja Khurram. The minor girl, whose face and hands bore torture marks, had initially denied being hurt by her employers. She told the police that she had gotten the injuries after falling from the stairs, while her hand was also burnt accidentally. However, the poor girl narrated her ordeal after being politely inquired by a female magistrate. She stated before the magistrate that she was beaten and her hand was burnt on the stove for losing a broom. The Supreme Court on Wednesday decided that Tayyaba would stay at Pakistan Sweet Homes, an orphanage, till her parents were identified.