TEHRAN The deputy head of Tehran Justice Department for judicial affairs has been assigned to probe into the case of a three-year-old girl by the department's head Abbas-Ali Alizadeh. The girl, Ensiyeh Rezaei, is currently being hospitalized at the ICU ward of a Tehran hospital due to her serious condition caused by being severely beaten and tortured by her father. The deputy, Mohammadreza Zandi, said on Wednesday that following the complaint he filed against Ensiyeh Rezaei's father, he was arrested at the compound of the hospital Tuesday afternoon and was transferred to the police station No. 148 for interrogations. Zandi said that after becoming informed of the incident through the same paper, he reported the case to the head of Tehran's Justice Department and proposed him that in cases with social impacts, including child torture, the Justice Department can directly intervene and issue the final ruling. He said given the importance of the case, which calls for careful attention and the fact that the public prosecutor should attend the court proceedings, he would demand the Justice Department's head to allow formation of a special branch to study the case independently. The miserable three-year-old Ensiyeh Rezaei was taken to Tehran's Medical Hospital for Children on Sunday unconsciously and was immediately hospitalized at the ICU ward of the hospital. According to a nurse of the ward Ensiyeh's body was marked with cuts and bruises caused by being severely beaten physically or with heavy objects. She said Ensiyeh also had several scars all over her body, especially in her shoulder, that were caused by punching needles into the poor child's flesh. "Blows dealt on Ensiyeh's head were so heavy that caused bleeding in her brain and as a result made her unconscious," a morning daily ***** Jomhouri Eslami **** quoted the nurse as saying. She further added that the scars and bruises on Ensiyeh's body were all proof of the fact that she had been subject to torture for a long period of time. She said Ensiyeh was the fourth child being hospitalized there in the past month for being tortured. "There is no law defending and protecting children being harassed and tortured," said the nurse, adding that they could no find no source to refer Ensiyeh's case to him.