India, April 8 -- A six-year-old boy was permanently blinded after his schoolteacher allegedly threw a stick in the classroom in Karnataka's Chikkaballapur district. Police said charges have been initiated against the teacher and five others involved in the incident that occurred last year.

The incident occurred on March 6 last year at a government school in Chintamani taluk of Chikkaballapur, according to a news agency PTI report, which mentioned that the child, Yeshwant, was in Class 1 back then.

The police informed that the teacher had thrown the stick in an attempt to control the classroom and it struck Yeshwant in the eye, causing severe damage.

The parents of the boy did not fully understand the extent of the his injuries at that...