Teenage boys younger than 18 years old seem to get away with a lot of things nowadays here in my country (the United States of America). I'm surprised that the father described in your article dismembered the teenage culprit's hands, because, as we Americans says, most fathers in that same situation would likely have been contemplating making that punk into a soprano. In other words, he'd be chopping something off that punk's body, but it wouldn't be his hands. I hope that the court system in India gives the father a fair trial, because he was pushed over the edge by that teenage punk's actions. His little girl's life has been ruined, and she has suffered much more than that teenage punk will ever suffer from what happened to him. Medical science will eventually come up with a way to regenerate his hands, but that little girl's childhood innocence has been stolen away from her forever.