A man brutally assaulted a four-year-old boy by lifting him up by his legs and slamming him into the ground, thereafter smashing the child’s head on an iron rod.. The incident, which was captured on the CCTV camera, took place in a housing society at Vasai on Monday night. (Screengrab). The accused, an autorickshaw driver, allegedly carried out the violent assault after an argument with the minor’s father in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, PTI news agency cited the police as saying.. In a video footage of the incident, the accused is seen walking towards his autorickshaw, following which he picks the child up from the ground and slams him. The driver is then seen picking the four-year-old up and running inside a building.. The incident, which was captured on the CCTV camera, took place in a housing society at Vasai on Monday night.. The accused was arrested after the incident, police said, according to PTI, while the child was critically injured and taken to the hospital. The four-year-old sustained head injuries and was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) at a hospital in Mira road and is battling for his life, police added.. “The brutal incident took place around 8 pm on Monday. A minor argument between the accused autorickshaw driver Sandeep Pawar and the child’s father Atul Kondhare took a gruesome turn,” senior police inspector Balkrishna Ghadigaonkar told PTI.. The inspector said the child was playing with other children in the parked autorickshaw when the driver walked out to the three-wheeler. Ghadigaonkar said that after forcefully slamming the child, the driver “rushed inside the building while holding the child, and smashed his head against an iron rod before throwing him to the ground again.”. The inspector said that the assault was carried out solely to avenge a fight he had earlier with the boy’s father over a minor issue.” The accused was remanded to three days of police custody by a local court, after a case was registered against him under ‘attempt to murder’ and other relevant sections of the BNS.