Overview
- The child reportedly told his mother he was hit with a wire and a belt for refusing to eat, and police said bruises were visible.
- During a November 25 video call the mother noticed injuries, and on November 27 she found the boy with a neighbor and filed an FIR at Sahar Police Station.
- Officers registered a case under the Juvenile Justice Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, arrested the father, and produced him in court for judicial custody.
- The parents had been living separately following alleged domestic violence, with the child staying with the father and meeting the mother weekly.
- The mother also alleged the father previously took the child to Pune without informing her and remained unreachable for three days.