India, June 4 -- The family of a 10-year-old boy lodged a complaint in Bengal's East Burdwan district on Monday alleging that the child was beaten up regularly over the past two years by his employer, a jewellery shop owner, in Gujarat's Rajkot, police said.

The child, who returned home on Sunday with another employee of the shop, was admitted at a government hospital in the Kalna sub-division where the family lives in a village.

"A case has been registered on the basis of a complaint lodged by the family. We have started an investigation," an officer from the Kalna police station told HT.

The child's father said poverty forced him to send his second son to Gujarat.

"I am an agricultural labourer with no fixed income. I have three mor...