Kolkata tutor sentenced to 6 months for beating 3-and-half year old

Justice Shubra Som Ghoshal sentenced tutor to six-month imprisonment and also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on her on Monday.

Update: 2018-07-25 07:23 GMT
The ministry of women and child development told parliament in March that only 467 male child abuse cases were lodged with police out of more than 36,321 such reported incidents in 2016. (Photo: Representational/AFP)

Kolkata: A Bidhannagar court sentenced a private tutor to six months imprisonment for beating a three-and-a-half-year-old boy.

The tutor, Pooja Singh, had beaten the boy at his home in Lake Town area in the northern fringes of Kolkata on July 22, 2014 which was caught on CCTV. The video of the incident had become viral.

Justice Shubra Som Ghoshal sentenced her to six-month imprisonment and also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on her on Monday.

The court, however, granted her bail.

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