New Delhi, March 25 -- The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) India has taken a 'suo motu' congnisance of a media report where a class IX student belonging from a Schedule Caste was assaulted by some upper caste boys from his locality in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi district, said an official press release by NHRC on Tuesday.

According to an official release, the incident took place when the victim onboard a bus, was traveling with his father for his exam, where perpetrators attacked him by the perpetrators, who dragged him out of the bus and assaulted him with a sickle.

The left hand fingers of the victim were severely injured in this attack, and the father of the victim was also assaulted when he tried to save his son, the release ad...