9-year-old boy branded on his face with a hot iron by his employer.

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9-year-old boy branded on his face with a hot iron by his employer.

Posted by editor on Jul 11th, 2012 and filed under National. . You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Kolkata: A nine-year-old boy was allegedly tortured and branded on his face by a hot iron by his employer at Behrampore in Murshidabad. The boy was employed as a domestic help by a businessman.

He was allegedly tortured by the man and his family members who used to beat him up. On Saturday the boy was mercilessly beaten up after he came late from a grocery store and then branded on his face by a hot iron.

The family is absconding and the boy has been taken to a child shelter.A case has also been registered under the Juvenile Protection Act.