Panchkula/Chandigarh, Nov. 5 -- Nearly a week after she was allegedly brutally assaulted by an eight-year-old boy at a government school in Panchkula, the six-year-old victim was discharged from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Juvenile Justice Board, Panchkula, granted bail to the boy, who had been sent to an observation home.

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera footage of the incident that took place on October 28 had purportedly shown the boy repeatedly banging the girl's head against a table, hurling a brick at her eight to nine times and kicking her.

The girl sustained multiple superficial injuries to her face and head and was kept under observation at PGIMER. A...