Police have arrested two men for allegedly tying a Dalit boy to a tree and beating him with sticks in Gujarat's Patan. The boy had come to write his 12th board exam and was waiting outside the exam centre when he was taken to a nearby village and thrashed. The men allegedly beat him for studying and not doing labour work.

However, among the two arrested is the brother of the accused state transport bus conductor who was named by the victim in the FIR. The other is the accused conductor’s cousin. The incident reportedly took place on Monday when the boy, a resident of Mehsana, had reached a government school at a village in Chanasma taluka of Patan district to appear in the Class XII Board exam.

Police have arrested two men for allegedly tying a Dalit boy to a tree and beating him with sticks in Gujarat's Patan. The boy had come to write his 12th board exam and was waiting outside the exam centre when he was taken to a nearby village and thrashed. The men allegedly beat him for studying and not doing labour work.

However, among the two arrested is the brother of the accused state transport bus conductor who was named by the victim in the FIR. The other is the accused conductor’s cousin. The incident reportedly took place on Monday when the boy, a resident of Mehsana, had reached a government school at a village in Chanasma taluka of Patan district to appear in the Class XII Board exam.