Thane: A 10 year old boy was allegedly beaten to death by his father for not attending school.
Police stated, ‘The accused, Ajit Majid Khan, a resident of Ambernath township in Thane district, questioned his son Sajid as to why he was neither studying nor attending school for several days.
When the boy could not give any satisfactory reply, the father angrily hit his son with a stick.’ Unable to bear the pain, his child collapsed. The boy was then rushed to a local health unit for medical assistance. He was later being shifted to the Thane Civil Hospital, where he was declared as dead.
“The father has been booked under section 302 (murder) of the IPC against the accused and further investigations are on,” stated D S Gavade, Shivaji Nagar police station inspector
