South-West India, A man who appears
no less than a demon to his 10-year-old son has been arrested soon after a video showing him mercilessly beating him up went online.

The police booked a criminal case and arrested the father, Mahendra Kumar, 37.

In the video, the accused - a plumber by profession - was seen beating up his son first with a mobile charger wire, then a leather belt and finally tossing him onto the bed multiple times after his son lied to him.

The victim, who is a class III student with a private school, is the lone child of his parents, police said.

Police booked Mahendra under the Justice to Juvenile Act and the Indian Penal Code sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (act with criminal intimidation).

After arresting the accused on Saturday afternoon, police produced him before Juvenile Justice Court where he was granted bail.