Taking sou motu cognisance of a video purportedly showing an 85-year-old woman being beaten by her daughter, Delhi Commission for Women on Tuesday wrote to the chairman of the Tribunal for Senior Citizens recommending protection and adequate maintenance to the octogenarian lady.
A DCW team along with chairperson Swati Maliwal visited the woman’s house and recorded the statement of the old lady, who, however, did not want any case registered against her 60-year-old daughter who was seen brutally thrashing her in the video that went viral on social media.
Maliwal, in her letter to M K Dwivedi, Additional District Magistrate (south east) and also the Chairman of the Tribunal for Senior Citizens, recommended that the daughter be given rare, restricted and supervised entry into the woman’s building.
The DCW chief also wrote to Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Kumar Verma, urging him to take suitable penal action against the daughter and ensure protection of the elderly woman.
“In the present circumstance, the Commission recommends immediate provision of protection and adequate maintenance to the senior citizen,” Maliwal said.
“It is also recommended that the daughter who has been shown beating up the old lady in the video should be given rare, restricted and supervised entrance to the building.
Since, the building is owned by the old lady it is recommended that the rent money should be deposited in her account and a caretaker be immediately appointed to look after her.
“Seeing the urgent nature of the problem, the Commission requests you to kindly take cognisance of the matter. As you can very well appreciate this is a crime against humanity, that we all must unite against it,” Maliwal said in her letter to Dwivedi.
The DCW chief also urged the Delhi Police Commissioner to provide the Commission with the names and address of the children of the old lady to carry out its proceedings and asked him to ensure preventive measures against entry of the daughter into the building where the woman resides in south Delhi’s Kalkaji area.
During Maliwal’s visit to her residence on Tuesday, the old woman told the DCW chief how she was beaten by her daughter severely a month ago which led to injuries in her right arm.