SURKHET, Oct. 4 -- A seven-year-old girl here has been severely beaten up by her stepmother leaving her seriously injured.

Already weak with acute malnutrition, the girl, Kamala Mahatara, has received deep internal injuries including dislocated pelvic bone and severe wounds on her body, according to doctors at the Provincial Hospital here.

She is being treated at the incentive care unit (ICU) of the hospital in Surkhet since the last 11 days. Upon seeing the daughter's condition, her father Tirtha Bahadur Mahatara faints time and again.

Kamala's mother had eloped with another man when Kamala was just four years old. A year after this, her father Tirtha Bahadur Mahatara, who works with Nepal Army, brought a second wife, Mana Kumari.

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