A young couple have learnt that the way to get their niece to study is not by clamping her fingers with a pair of cutting pliers.The seven-year-old’s aunt, who bruised her ward’s finger tips to get her to study, has been arrested along with her husband.Seeing the girl’s finger tips had been injured rather badly, the grandmother rushed the girl to a nearby hospital. The hospital, noticing that this was no ordinary injury, and taking into account the intense pain the child was in, registered a medico legal case and referred the matter to the jurisdictional police.The police who acted on the medico legal case spoke to the victim about why she was tortured and arrested the couple, after registering a case against them under the Juvenile Justice Act of 2015. Had there been no medico legal case, the police claim that this incident would have gone unreported.The arrested man and his wife are both employed in private firms. The girl’s father is the accused’s husband’s brother. The girl’s lost her mother some time ago and her father lives in another district near Tumakuru.The victim is being cared for by her 54-year-old grandmother and is a second standard student. The accused couple, in their late 20s, stay with the victim and her grandmother in a rented house in the city’s north division on Tumakuru Road. The police have learnt that the accused would regularly pick up and drop the victim to school and would beat her up often. The alleged torture came to light only because of the bruised fingers of the victim. The incident happened recently.“After their arrest, the couple have claimed that they did not have any ill feelings towards the victim and all they did was try to scare her into studying, by clamping her finger tips between a pair of cutting pliers. However the damage had been done as the girl’s fingertips were bruised and had turned blue. The girl was unable to hold anything, even a pencil to do her homework. When her grandmother, who works as a house keeping staff, returned home and saw the victim in tremendous pain and unable to use her hands, she rushed her to a hospital,” said an officer.However, the grandmother had no intentions to file a police complaint against her own kin.As it was a medico legal case, the police had no option other than to file a criminal case. The victim’s grandmother was made to file a complaint. The police have registered a case under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act of 2015 and IPC 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means) against the couple.Further investigations are on.