PATIALA: A 10-year-old girl's knuckles were brunt with electric iron, her ears pressed between hot plates of hair straightener. He claimed the girl was of legal age to work as domestic help and that her father worked at their properties in Uttarakhand. He said the girl's father would be coming to Patiala on Thursday.However, the district child protection officer Harpreet Kaur Sandhu said the girl's age needed to be medically confirmed. He said yesterday they had gone to attend some family function and when they returned they could not find the girl. She told him that she was 10-year-old..