India, July 28 -- A five-year-old in Varanasi was allegedly branded on their private parts with a hot metal knife for wetting their pants at a playschool. On July 24, the victim asked to use the toilet, but their teacher refused to let them at the Serene Sony Play School in the Akatha-Pandeypur area. The five-year-old ended up wetting their pants. According to the victim's father's police complaint, the teacher then took the minor to another room, heated a knife on a gas stove until it was red-hot, and burned the five-year-old's private parts.

The child's father, advocate Kesari Jaiswal, said the child came home in severe pain. The victim's mother noticed a blister. When they asked what happened, the five-year-old named the teacher, Pree...