A woman in Andhra Pradesh has been arrested for assaulting her two-year-old son after a video of the incident went viral.
22-year-old Thulasi, who is from Chittoor, was picked up by the police from her mother’s residence.
Days ago, Thulasi’s husband had registered a complaint against her in which he said that the couple had a difference of opinion after which he dropped his wife at her mother’s home around 40 days ago.
On August 28, he chanced upon videos in Thulasi’s phone in which she was seen mercilessly beating up their child and he noticed bruises on the body of the child.
A video of the assault had gone viral, after which netizens and child welfare activists demanded immediate police action over the incident.
Following her arrest, Thulasi was taken for psychiatric consultation.
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