Mathura: A 40-year-old has been charged over taking his eight-year-old daughter to school roped to his motorcycle on Friday.
Police has arrested after local newspapers in Uttar Pradesh state published photos taken by passers-by. He has now been freed on bail.
Onlookers say that his daughter had an exam and was reluctant to go to school.
The incident took place in a village in the district of Mathura at a time when the prime minister has launched a huge campaign to educate girls in India.
The man, a father of two sons and three daughters, works as a security guard at a private school
Police say he tried to persuade the girl, his youngest child, to go to school, particularly since she had a test to write.
The child was promised sweets and gifts, but when she refused to relent, her angry father tied her to the back of his bike with ropes and took her to school.
He has been charged with breach of peace, Mathura superintendent of police Shailesh Pandey said.
The man spent a day in the cells but still believes he did the right thing.
“My daughter will not die if I take her to school. But she will surely die if she does not study,” he told a leading daily.
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