PUNE: The Chinchwad police on Friday filed a complaint against a man (41), along with his wife (36), on the charge of neglecting and ill-treating his elderly parents over property rights of their flat.
The man’s 75-year-old father, a retired state government employee, lodged a complaint stating that his son and daughter-in-law had beaten him and his wife several times, and also abused them. The elderly couple claimed that their son and daughter-inlaw had been completely neglecting them from 2016.
Assistant inspector Rohini Shewale of the Chinchwad police said, “They all stay in the same flat. The elderly man stated in the complaint that the couple wanted the ownership of the flat,but he was against it.”
Shewale said, “The son works with a reputable biomedical company and his wife is highly educated. Yet, they thrashed and abused the elderly couple on several occasions, prompting him to lodge a complaint.”
The assistant inspector said, “As of now, we have not arrested the couple’s son and his wife. The probe is on.”
Police have invoked provisions of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, and IPC sections 323 and 324.