Updated On: 21 January, 2021 12:00 AM IST | Hyderabad | IANS
A police officer said that an inebriated Balu first beat up the Class 6 student over his educational activities even as the boy's mother tried in vain to save him

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A 12-year-old boy set ablaze by his father for not taking his studies seriously and not attending online classes succumbed to his injuries at a government hospital here on Thursday, police said.
R Charan, who had sustained 60 per cent burns, breathed his last at the Gandhi Hospital.