ANGUL: Chhendipada police arrested a couple - Subash Chandra and Manjulata Pradhan - on Sunday for allegedly branding their 12-year-old son with a hot iron rod for not going to school.
The child, who has injury marks on his body, was sent to a children's short-stay home.The incident was reported from Hatianali village under Balipata panchayat.
According to Rajesh Satpathy, an officer at Chhendipada police station, Subash married Manjulata after his first wife left him.
He has a son with his first wife.
Apparently, his stepmother told him not to go to school and he had been staying home for the last four days.
On Wednesday, Subash found him at home and asked why he was not in school.
Manjulata apparently told Subash that the child had not been going to school for the last four days.
This angered Subash, who beat up the child and then branded him with a hot iron rod at four places.The child was saved by his grandmother who also lodged a complaint with the police.
On Saturday, district childline officials took the child away and produced him before at child welfare commission which sent him to the shelter home.
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