A woman was caught mercilessly beating up her 70-year-old mother-in-law and trying to strangle her with a cloth at her home here with a CCTV installed by her estranged husband recording the brutality.
Sangeeta was arrested and will be produced in court on Tuesday.
The woman Sangeeta Jain has been arrested on charges of attempt to murder after her husband showed the shocking video to the police.
The video captured on January 5 shows Sangeeta first hitting the elderly woman Raj Rani Jain and then trying to strangle her with a cloth. Sangeeta had some differences with her husband Sandeep Jain and mother-in-law and their divorce case was pending in a local court, according to the police.
"My daughter in-law attacked me brutally. That day she came from kitchen and started slapping me. She almost strangled me to death. She even hit my head with brick. I don't know why she did this. I never interfered in anything happening in the family," told the victimised mother in-law.
Sangeeta had also lodged a complain against Sandeep under the Dowry Act, according to station house officer Nehtaur, Chandra Kant Yadav.
Sandeep was sent to police custody for a day on January 4 on charges of dowry harassment.
Sandeep had a suspicion that Sangeeta used to torture his parents in his absence and had installed a CCTV camera in his mother's room to keep an eye on his wife.
On January 5, he came to know from the CCTV footage that she was "mercilessly thrashing" the old lady and informed the police at Nehtaur who allegedly turned him away.
"This has been happening for quite some time now. She used to assault and abuse my parents very often. I complained about her but no one used to listen to me. Then after waiting for two years, I installed a CCTV camera expecting that she will fix her ways, but she didn't. That day she crossed all the limits. I installed the camera to unmask her since the law is on the woman's side when these types of cases are concerned," said S Sandeep.
Sandeep on Monday reported the matter to the SP (rural) following which Sangeeta was arrested.
Debjit Chowdhry, ADG (Law and Order) said, "We will take legal action against her. Already a first information report has been registered and our police officers have visited the site. We are looking at the CCTV footage and further legal action will be taken".
"There is a lot of infighting among the family -- husband-wife, mother-in-law and wife -- it is a family matter and now the police is in the picture," he said.
With inputs from ANI
