Police in India have arrested a woman
for attempted murder after being caught on a hidden camera brutally assaulting
her 70-year-old mother in law.
Sangeeta Jain is seen strangling her
mother-in-law Rajrani, before dragging her by her hair and using a stone to
beat her.
Mrs Jain was filmed abusing the
elderly woman after her husband Sandeep installed a secret CCTV camera in their
home in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh.
Mrs Jain is in the process of
divorcing her husband-of-seven-years, who stands accused of marital rape and
dowry harassment, but reports are not clear whether he has been charged
Uttar Pradesh police arrested Mrs
Jain on Tuesday morning after the video, filmed on January 5, was posted on
social media and went viral in India.
Mrs Jain claims the video is a fake,
set up by her husband and mother-in-law, adding that: 'they beat me so many
times... there is no video of that'.
It sees Mrs Jain entering the room
and attacking the OAP who appears to have been sleeping in the family's
kitchen, by trying to strangle her from behind using a towel.
She is then seen slapping the
70-year-old multiple times before moving on to punching her with both fists.
She continues to try to strangle
her, wrapping a scarf or cloth tighter around the woman's neck, almost dragging
her mother-in-law off the bed in the process.
Mrs Jain then leaves the kitchen and
returns with a brick, and using it as a weapon, to hit the woman on the back
and over the head.
'She came out of the kitchen and
started slapping me. She also started to beat me with bricks... I do not know
why she does it,' said Rajrani Jain sad after the attacks.
'She was always like this. She used
to attack us all - my parents, me...' Sandeep Jain said.
Despite his claims of repeated
assaults, Mr Jain but has not offered any explanation as to why he waited seven
years to report his soon-to-be ex-wife.
'I waited for a year and then
thought of installing a CCTV camera to expose her,' he said.
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