India, July 31 -- The teacher of a private tutoring class in Malad east was booked for allegedly burning the hand of an eight-year-old boy with a candle, because of his bad handwriting.

According to the Kurar police, the boy's father, Mustaqin Khan, 50, told the police that his son, Mohammad Hamza Khan, a Class 3 student, attends two hours of private tuition classes every evening with the accused, Rajshree Rathod.

On Tuesday evening, the victim's elder sister dropped him off at Rathod's house for tuition. The police said, around 9pm, Rathod called Khan and asked him to pick up his son as he was crying a lot.

When the boy returned home, he told his father that Rathod had held his hand over a candle to punish him for his bad handwriting....