Palghar, March 31 An autorickshaw driver brutally assaulted a four-year-old boy by lifting him by his legs and slamming him to the ground before smashing his head on an iron rod following an argument with the minor's father in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Tuesday.
The incident took place in a housing society in Vasai on Monday night, after which the accused was arrested, they said, adding that the critically-injured child is fighting for his life in a hospital.
The incident was captured on CCTV.
"The brutal incident took place around 8 pm on Monday. A minor argument between the accused autorickshaw driver Sandeep Pawar and the child's father Atul Kondhare took a gruesome turn," senior police inspector Balkrishna Ghadigaonkar told