Private tutor held for beating up child with hot spatula

Kolkata: Police have arrested a private tutor for allegedly torturing a 5-year-old boy. The incident occurred at Howrah's Belur.

Police said the victim boy, a student of a private English medium school in Belur, used to take private tuition with a local teacher for sometime. On Thursday, the victim, who is an upper KG student, went to the tuition after returning from school. The victim told the police that the teacher asked him certain questions which he had failed to answer. This made the woman teacher angry and she brought a hot cooking spatula from the kitchen and started beating up the boy with the same.

The child has burn marks on his upper arms, knees, fingers, thigh and both palms after the home tutor tried to harm the child the with hot spatula.

There are some injuries on his body as well.

Locals staged a demonstration in front of the house of the accused teacher after the matter came to light.

The victim was wreathing in pain after being beaten up.

The victim fell seriously ill following the incident. The family members later lodged a complaint at the local police station on Thursday night following which the police raided the accused's house and arrested her in this connection.