Geeta lives in a jhuggi-jhopri cluster next to the middle-class residential complexes in Delhi’s Dwarka. She runs a family of seven - an old mother, widowed sister and four children. After losing her contractual job as a housekeeper in an educational institution last year, she took up domestic work in at least three houses. She is on the lookout for more houses to work in to avoid starvation at home. But the Covid-19 lockdown, in its second prolonged extension, has made survival precarious for Geeta and thousands of others like her. One employer warned her not to come to work without any assurance that she’d be paid for the days of absence. Another employer kept insisting that she come to work with safety gloves and a mask in spite of the lockdown till strict enforcement of rules by the police made it impossible for her to travel. Another employer asked her not to come again resulting in loss of work and income. All of her experiences during lockdown indicate aggravated forms of injustices and disregard towards migrant domestic workers like her in the public realm. A systemic denial to recognise domestic workers as ‘workers’ has always left them at the mercy of the employer. This institutional ignorance is also influenced by structural patterns and prejudices and have been discussed and debated in policy discourse. Life-threatening challenges that domestic workers face during this lockdown emerge out of the multiple vulnerabilities that sustained in this sector so far. In order to understand the current inaction for the welfare of domestic workers, one needs to relook at these deep-rooted injustices existing for decades.