A fight between two children at a residential complex in Greater Noida escalated into a major altercation between their mothers when one of the women slapped the other’s six-year-old child. It was so forceful that it left a bruise on the child’s cheek.
One of the two children called his mother during the fight with another boy. The woman slapped the other boy across his face. When the child's mother and other women in the locality confronted the woman, she threatened to hit the child again. The incident occurred at a residential complex on 10th Avenue of Gaur City 2, in Greater Noida on Tuesday.
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In one of the videos that has circulated on social media, the woman is heard saying, "Wherever I find him alone, I will slap him." When a woman recording the events on her phone asks, "You tell us, why did you hit the child?" the woman charges at her and slaps her as well, causing the phone to fall.
Another video shows the woman verbally abusing the person recording her, while other residents attempt to intervene and defuse the situation.
According to The Times Of India, the mother of the child who got slapped, Chanchal Saini said that the woman refused to accept that she hit the child despite the visible bruise. Saini said when she asked the woman if she had slapped her son she started abusing Saini and threatened to hit him again.
After the incident, the child’s father gave a written complaint at the Bisrakh police station. "We registered an FIR against the woman under sections 115 (2) of BNS, which deals with punishment for voluntarily causing hurt, and under section 352 of BNS, which deals with acts of provocation and the subsequent punishment for offences committed under the influence of provocation," said SHO of Bisrakh police station was quoted by TOI.