Cuttack: In an inhuman act, a couple have been allegedly torturing their minor nephew by beating him and branding with hot iron in Odisha’s Cuttack city for two months. The matter came to light after the maternal grandparents of the boy filed a police complaint in this regard.
As per the complaint, after the boy’s mother expired in 2018, his father, staying in Sector 6 of CDA in the city had remarried to take care of the child. But the marriage did not last long and the couple got divorced. The boy was left in the care of his maternal grandparents.
Later, the boy’s paternal uncle and aunty took the 9-year-old boy to their house in Sector 7 of CDA to look after him. On Dussehra, his maternal grandparents went on a visit to the boy. During their stay, the boy narrated the torture by uncle and aunty on him.
He alleged that his uncle was beating him mercilessly with belt for laughing loudly. Both uncle and aunty were keeping him standing outside the house at night. They branded him with hot iron rod on different parts of the body on many occasions. They even threatened him not to say all these to anybody.
After hearing the torture from the child, his grandfather Madan Mohan Rout and grandmother Baijayanti Rout filed a police complaint at Markatnagar police station. The boy also told the police that the torture was going on for more than two months.
The police have registered a case and would present the child before Child Welfare Committee for counselling and further steps.
