Shock and anger in India after eight-year-old beats six-year-old in classroom

Police say the eight-year-old, who is studying in third grade, told the girl that her father was waiting for her in a classroom where he assaulted her.

The family of the girl, who studies in kindergarten, reached the school after being informed by an auto-rickshaw driver that he had gone to pick her up but could not find her.

"When the girl was not found even after school ended, we went in to look for her. No one there knew where she was," her father told BBC Punjabi.

He said the boy who assaulted his daughter told him that she was in a classroom upstairs, where he found his seriously injured daughter.