Seven Dalit children, all below 10 years of age, were forced to dip their hands in boiling mustard oil in a village in Pratapgarh. Their fault: they happened to be playing near the spot where a neighbour lost his watch.

The owner of the lost watch, Waheed and his wife, Mehrunnisa, have been arrested while the police are still looking for their son also, one of the accused ... (Source: The Indian Express, 30 December, 1998)