Haryana: 8-year-old boy bangs KG student’s head against desk, hits her with brick inside classroom

An eight-year-old boy grabbed a kindergarten student by her hair and repeatedly banged her head against a desk before kicking and hitting her with a brick at a government school in Haryana’s Panchkula, The Indian Express reported on Sunday.

He continued hitting her after she fell to the floor and lost consciousness.

The incident took place on Wednesday and came to light after the auto-rickshaw driver who had arrived to pick up the girl could not find her. He informed her father, who then went to the school.

When the father arrived at the school, the boy told him, “Uncle, I will take you upstairs. She is there,” The Indian Express reported.

CCTV footage from the classroom, later shared on social media, showed the boy returning after some time, dragging the unconscious girl across the floor and continuing to hit her.

The girl suffered facial and nasal fractures and is undergoing treatment at hospital in Chandigarh. She regained consciousness only on Saturday.

The girl’s uncle told The Indian Express that the boy had lured her to an empty classroom by telling her that her father was coming to school.

The boy, a student of Class 3, allegedly narrated what happened to a teacher after the school administration examined the CCTV footage.

He was taken to a hospital on Saturday for a mandatory mental health assessment,...

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