Cuttack (Odisha): A 9-year-old boy was allegedly branded with a hot iron rod and made to stand outside house all along nights by his parental uncle and aunt in Odisha's Cuttack city. The incident came to the light when the maternal grandparents of the boy narrated his ordeal when they met him on Dushera day.
The boy was staying with his materinal uncle's house after his mother died in 2018 and his father remarried another woman. Though the boy was staying with his grandparents, he was later brought to Cuttack by uncle and aunt for his studies. The boy's grandparents- Madan Mohan Rout and Baijayanti Rout, have lodged a complaint against the uncle and aunt at Markatnagar police station demanding strong action against the culprits for subjecting inhuman torture on the boy.