Overview

• Rajeshram alias Bhagwan was remanded to judicial custody following an FIR for burning and beating his five-year-old daughter.
• On June 30 neighbors filed a complaint after capturing a video showing the father tying his daughter’s feet and branding her cheeks with a burning cigarette.
• Police invoked sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act to press charges for child cruelty.
• A woman inspector led the home investigation and recorded the girl’s statement before arranging her medical examination and treatment.
• The case underscores economic strains in low-income urban families, with an unemployed father and a sole earning mother facing intensified domestic pressures.