The Delhi police registered a case against a mother, who punished her 5-year old daughter by allegedly tying her hands and legs with a rope and abandoning her on the roof of a house under the scorching heat of the sun. The incident took place in Tukhmirpur in Delhi’s Karawal Nagar. The police have registered a case under Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act (Punishment for cruelty to child) at the Khajurikhas police station.

After the video went viral, the Delhi police registered an FIR in the police station and initiated action against the mother of the girl. The girl is a student of Class 1. The mother was identified as Sapna while the father was identified as Raj Kumar. Speaking to ANI, the kid’s uncle Sunil said, “The mother of the girl tied her hands and legs and made her sit on the rooftop in the scorching sun irked by her not doing the homework. She kept lying in the sun for a long time time. When the rest of the family members came to know about it, they brought her down.”