Tum kutte ho, kutte jaise raho. In what is, perhaps, the most apt manifestation of his beastly behaviour, this is what a city techie allegedly used to tell his 12-year-old house help while he beat up and whipped the child relentlessly every day for nearly two years.

Pankaj Ramji Pande (33) and his wife Shweta (28), residents of Lunkad Goldcoast society, opposite the Symbiosis campus in Viman Nagar, have been booked after the child’s daily pleas for help were finally answered and he was rescued by the Childline NGO and Airport police on Tuesday evening.