AIZAWL: A person has been accused of bashing up his tenant’s five-year-old daughter that made her paralysed and landed her in hospital.
A source in the Child Welfare Committee, which is investigating the case, however, said the evidence that the child became paralysed due to the beatings was yet to be established.
“Even though the landlord at Seventh Day Tlang locality in Aizawl admitted that he had beaten up the victim for making too much noise, there is no proof that it made her paralysed,” the source said.
Doctors were, however, quoted as saying that the girl suffered from severe trauma, might be a fallout of the bash-up, which could have resulted in paralysis.
The girl, Lalduhawmi, is waiting for an operation at the GNRC Hospital, Guwahati, where she had been referred to from Synod Hospital, Durtlang, here.
While not denying that he had beaten the girl for her “disobedience,” the accused, who is a kohhran upa (church elder), strongly argued that his beating was not that hard to cause her paralysis.
He was reported as confessing that he beat up the girl as she did not pay heed to his repeated pleas not to jump on the wooden floor.
“He maintained that the child went to school for many days after he beat her,” a source said. (UNI)