Hyderabad, Sept. 1 -- A man was arrested and two others detained for allegedly assaulting an eight-year-old Dalit boy and hanging him upside down from a tree for touching a water pot in Bhakharpura village of Rajasthan. The boy's mother and grandmother were also attacked when they tried to intervene.

The incident took place on August 29 when Narnaram Prajapat and Demaram Prajapat allegedly asked the boy to clean a washroom and collect garbage, according to the police complaint filed by his mother, Puri Devi.

The attack was triggered after the child asked for water and touched a pot, she added.

"They took him to Narnaram's house, tied him upside down to a tree and kept beating him," Puri Devi said. She claimed that when she and her moth...