Photo for representative purpose onlyAHMEDABAD: An autorickshaw driver, Veenu Parmar, 50, from the Ambawadi area of the city died as he could not sustain the shock he suffered from injuries, after being beaten by his wife and their two children — a son, 17, and daughter, 19.
According to an FIR filed with Ellisbridge police, on May 5, Parmar was badly beaten by his wife Ranjan and their daughter Hinal and minor son over an issue of transferring his house in Ambedkar Colony to Ranjan’s name.
Parmar called up his elder brother Ramesh saying that he needed his help and pleaded to rescue him from his family members. Ramesh and another relative went to Parmar’s house and took him to Sola Civil Hospital where he was given primary treatment in OPD and returned to his home.
On May 6 evening, Raju, Parmar’s nephew, who lives in the same locality, went to check on him. Raju found that Parmar was lying unconscious in the gallery outside the house. Raju informed Ramesh about and they called up 108 ambulance. Doctors of 108 ambulance service reached there and declared Parmar as dead.
At that time, Ellisbridge police had registered a case of causing injuries as Parmar was beaten by wooden rods by his wife and children.
“On August 18, a panel of doctors gave the postmortem report which states that the death occurred due to shock as a result of injuries sustained by the man (Veenu Parmar). After this, we have charges his wife, daughter and minor son,” said inspector Apoorva Patel of Ellisbridge police.
The deceased’s brother Rameh said that his brother was beaten and harassed by his wife, daughter and elder son for around ten years seeking his house to be transferred to his wife’s name. “They were also harassing him for not earning much as his livelihood was hampered due to lockdown. They had beaten him so badly that he succumbed to the injures later,” said Ramesh. Parmar’s third child studies in Class 7.