Man held on charge of torturing infant

ALAPPUZHA: Saji (40), of Kayamkulam, was arrested on charge of tying up his brother’s three-and-a-half-year-old child to a cradle inside a locked house. The police said the incident happened on Monday when the child’s mother, Jincy, went out for work. Saji and his wife, Jasmin, allegedly tied the child to a cradle and locked the house and went away. Local people alerted the police when they heard the child’s cries.

The police forcefully opened the door of the house and rescued the child. The tired child was admitted to the Government Hospital in Kayamkulam. According to Jincy, Saji and his wife had been torturing her and her two children after her husband had left them. They had been living in Saji’s house. The police found several bruises on the body of the children. The child will soon be shifted to the government children’s home in Nooranad in the district, said district child welfare committee member M K Abdhul Samad.