Panchkula, Nov. 3 -- The six-year-old girl, who was brutally assaulted by a Class-3 student at a government school in Panchkula last week, had also suffered a minor fracture on her head, besides the fracture on her nose, a senior police official revealed on Monday.

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera footage of the incident had purportedly shown the boy repeatedly hitting her head against a table and then flinging a brick at her, at least eight to nine times. The incident had sent shockwaves across social media, with users expressing shock and horror at the brutality.

The girl's father had found her in a pool of blood in a locked classroom, when he had gone to pick her up after school. According to information, the boy had himself l...