Ninety-two-year-old beaten up by family in Mumbai
Nimisha Srivastava / CNN-IBN
Published on Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 23:19 in Nation section
Mumbai: Ninety-two-year-old Laxmibai Paleja is scarred physically and mentally. The bruises on her face are a stark reminder of the violence that she has been allegedly subjected to by her daughter-in-law Darshana and grandson Vinay.
Laxmibai says she has been constantly harassed by the two since her son died of a paralytic attack in December last year.
“My daughter-in-law hit me on my chest and my grandson kicked my face,” an inconsolable Laxmibai said, who lives Darshana and Vinay in Mulund, a Mumbai suburb.
After the battering, she was allegedly dumped at her daughter's house who then rushed her to a nearby hospital.
Mumbai has seen a steady rise in such cases. In this particular case, Laxmibai alleges that she was meted out such harsh treatment because she had already given away her property and so now her family didn’t want to take care of her.
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SOURCE: ibnlive
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