“I want justice for my brother,” said Jitender Kumar, even as a second surgery was performed on his younger brother, Santosh, 14, within a week at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak on Thursday.
The teenager, with his arm severed from the elbow and crudely bandaged, was walking along the road in Nuh on July 29 when two schoolteachers spotted him and took him to a police station. He was later shifted to the PGIMS Rohtak after a first-aid at a hospital in Nuh.
Santosh later told the police that he was held captive at some place in Haryana as a bonded labourer and had severed his arm while feeding grass into a motorised chopper.
Though the family had initially refused to file a police complaint, Mr. Kumar, told The Hindu over phone that the man, who had unleashed cruelty on his brother, be brought to book and punished.
“His arm was still hanging from his body, but his employer, instead of taking him to the doctor, cut it with a blade. He then made him sit inside a car, covered his face with a piece of cloth and abandoned him on a road in the evening. When my brother objected to his face being covered, he even beat him up,” said Jitender, 23, a native of Bihar’s Kishanganj.
