A six-year-old boy, Pranay Teja, has died after he allegedly collapsed at a private school in Visakhapatnam, India, following an incident involving a teacher.

The boy’s family alleged that Pranay was slapped and beaten with a stick by a teacher at Little Garden School in the One Town area for failing to complete his homework.

He was later taken to King George Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.

According to his father, Pranay had left home that morning in good health and had insisted on going to school.

Hours later, the family was informed that something had happened to him.