Hyderabad: The Miyapur police arrested a couple for allegedly torturing and repeatedly beating their four-year-old girl child at Old Hafeezpet.
The incident came to light on October 1 when the child, Sidra Naaz, was found by the complainant, Syed Ahmed Hussain, crying near a kirana shop at Youth Colony. He was with his friends when he saw the girl crying inconsolably, bearing grave injury marks on her hands, legs, face, back, shoulders, and abdomen and bleeding fingernails.
When Hussain asked Sidra about her parents, she took him to her mother, Sabha Nazneem, 21, and stepfather, Mohammed Javeed, 22.
According to the FIR copy accessed by Siasat.com, Sidra was Sabha Nazneem’s child from her first marriage. The woman had remarried Javeed, who works as an auto driver.
Miyapur police interrogated the couple, who confessed to torturing the child, cutting her nails with a nail cutter, and repeatedly assaulting her.
A case was registered under Section 118(2) (voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means) of BNS and Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act.
They were produced before the court and remanded to 14 days of judicial custody.
Meanwhile, Sidraa was handed over to her biological father, Babu Miya, police said.
(The copy has been updated with minor edits in headline)
| Edited by Veena Nair | 
