India, July 3 -- An Indian-origin father has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly causing serious injuries to his two-year-old child in Garner in North Carolina earlier this month, as per court records.

The Garner Police Department reported that Kiran Netha Pasunuri, 44, was arrested on June 25. He faces two counts of felony intentional child abuse resulting in serious injury and two counts of felony negligent child abuse causing serious bodily injury, following the hospitalization of a two-year-old child with severe injuries on June 2.

Warrants issued by the Garner police confirm that Pasunuri is the father of the child.

According to court records, just two days following the initial arrest, Pasunuri was charged with att...