The homework was unfinished. The boy did not come home.

Thursday morning in One Town, Visakhapatnam. A six-year-old walked into Little Garden School — also called Little Gardens on Town Koth Road — and did not walk out.

Pranaya Teja was in UKG. He went to class as on any other day. The teacher scolded him and pulled him over unfinished homework. He collapsed in the classroom. Staff took him to King George Hospital. Doctors there declared him brought dead.

That is the public sequence. It is already too much. It is also all that can be written without turning a child into a clip.

His family and relatives sat outside KGH and said the teacher's conduct killed him. They also gathered at the school after classroom footage began circulating, and demanded action against the teacher and the management. Police registered a case and, on Thursday's public record, took the teacher into custody. They are examining the footage and the circumstances, including whether the boy had any underlying health condition. They said further details would come after the investigation and the post-mortem report.

No official medical cause has been named. None should be invented. A "suspected" illness offered in the same breath as a classroom collapse is not a finding. It is a way to move the body out of the school and into a private tragedy. The post-mortem will speak. Until it does, the only honest medical sentence is the hospital's: brought dead.

A six-year-old is not a discipline problem. Homework is not a licence. Andhra's schools are not supposed to use the hand as a syllabus. The law already forbids corporal punishment in a classroom. A private UKG in One Town is not outside that law. The family has asked for a thorough inquiry and for the people responsible to be held. That ask does not require a viral replay.

Police have not named the teacher in the public record of Thursday afternoon. They have not issued a chargesheet. Custody is not conviction. A collapse after a scolding is not, by itself, a completed forensic file. It is already a civic failure. A school that cannot keep a six-year-old standing through a homework check cannot claim it is teaching.

Do not hunt a photograph of the boy. Do not use a classroom still in which he can be identified. The facts that are public are enough: a named child, a named school, a teacher in custody, a family at the government hospital, and a post-mortem pending. The lock that matters now is the investigation, not the school gate.

Visakhapatnam knows KGH as the hospital that receives the city's worst mornings. On Thursday it received a UKG pupil and had to tell his parents he was already gone. The protest outside that building is not theatre. It is the only public room left when a child leaves a classroom and does not return. Officers who ask the family to wait for a report should also ask the school how a homework check became a fatality file.

Until the report exists, no one should invent a heart, a clot, or a hidden illness to wash the classroom. The family's charge is on the record. The footage is with the police. The teacher is in custody. A city that needs a post-mortem to decide whether a six-year-old should have been pulled for homework has already answered the civic question. The forensic question can wait in the lab. The school question cannot.