Kolkata: In a shocking incident caught on camera, a three-year-old boy was mercilessly beaten up here by a middle-aged woman tutor, days after a video clip showed a school principal brutally caning “indisciplined” visually challenged boys in Andhra Pradesh sparking public outrage.
The incident happened on Tuesday and a police complaint was filed on Wednesday morning along with the footeage from the CCTV camera installed at the child’s home in Lake Town area here showing the woman thrashing the boy.
“We have received a complaint and are on a lookout for the woman,” police said.
According to the complaint lodged by the kid’s family, the tutor was appointed just a few days back.
The tutor later apologised and requested the kid’s family not to inform the police. But after that, her husband came and threatened them not to lodge a complaint, forcing the family to register the police complaint.
TV channels had aired on Monday video footage of a school principal brutally caning “indisciplined” visually challenged boys, aged betw-een 9 and 13 years, in Andhra Pradesh’s East Godavari district. The police later arrested the principal, who was also visually challenged, and another school official.
