Anandapur, 6/11:  A man was seen  severely torturing a child at the anganwadi centre in Keonjhar district, on the allegation that the child had stolen his  son’s toy. A FIR was lodged against him after the video showing him meting out torture to the teen aged boy went viral.

The barbaric incident has taken place at Sibanarayanpur anganwadi centre under Hatadihi block of Anandapur subdivision.

As seen in the video footage, the man was not only slapping the child, he was making the teen aged child upside down. He was not sparing the child even if he was crying in pain.

The man was seen doing the tortuous act and threatening the teen age child for quite some time ignoring the request of the anganwadi in -charge not to do this.