India, July 28 -- A nursery teacher at a private school in Varanasi allegedly branded a five-year-old boy's private parts with a hot knife for urinating in his pants after he was denied permission to use the washroom, police said on Monday.

An FIR was registered against the teacher, the principal and the management of the school on July 25 after the child's father filed a complaint at the Lalpur-Pandeypur police station. They were booked under sections 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 118(1) (voluntarily causing hurt) and 351(2) (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), said station house officer (SHO) Atul Kumar Singh.

The CCTV footage and DVR had been taken into possession for examination and the school's kitchen...