Mumbai: A 30-year-old woman suspected of pouring boiling hot water on her nine-year-old nephew after an underage child could not wash the clothes properly captured by Malwani police recently.
Some locals who saw burns on the body of the child told the police and made him receive at the hospital, police said.
The minor is stable now.
Aunt Arrested, Safiya Shaikh, at this time in Judicial custody.
The problem was revealed on November 15.
Locals, asking for anonymity, told Tii that the owner told him about a girl who was afraid and did not want to return to his aunt’s house.
“When we asked the girl, he showed his injury.
There were burns on his right shoulders, ears, neck and legs.
We were surprised to see it.
How can someone do this?” Local said, added that he called the police control room after two police officers arrived in place.
After seeing the girl’s injury, the two police personnel called the personnel of the woman and the girl were taken to the hospital.
When the police spoke to the girl, he told them that his aunt had poured hot water on it because he could not wash clothes properly.
The girl’s mother was mentally ill, so the minor was stored in aunt’s custody.
“We have caught the aunt and the girl was at Nair Hospital, but was stable,” said Shekar Bhalerao.
The girl is likely to be handed over to her older brother after running out.
The police have arrested Shaikh under the IPC section 326 (voluntarily causing a sad pain by weapons or dangerous facilities) and under the act of adolescent justice (child care and protection).