A shocking video of a playschool caretaker has gone viral where she is badly beating a 10-month-old girl. The woman is seen mercilessly slapping and kicking the baby in?Navi Mumbai's Kharghar creche. The woman named?Afsana Sheikh?has now been arrested along with the owner of the child care facility,?Priyanka Nikam.
After the incident came to light, Maharashtra's Women and Child Development Minister Pankaja Munde said that they will now make CCTV installations a compulsory feature at creches.?
The incident happened?at the?Purva Play School and Creche. The girl's parents,?Ruchita and Rajat Sinha who are both working professionals, came to know about their daughter's beating on Tuesday when they found a wound on her forehead.?
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As they didn't get a proper response from Nikam, they approached a doctor who said that it was a case of child abuse. Immediately after, they filed a complaint at the?Kharghar Police Station.
Their daughter is being treated of her injuries at a private hospital.?Police have registered a case against Sheikh and Nikam under section 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt) of IPC and section 23 of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act-2000.