Updated July 22, 2014

Hours after he was arrested, the man who was caught on a video caning three young children said he was acting on the orders of their parents.
 
"Parents themselves told me that I must put fear in the children, so that they study and behave well,'' KV Rao, the main manager of a school for visually challenged children in Andhra Pradesh, told the police who asked him why he had  beaten the children.