85-year-old rescued from kin’s torture in Surat

SURAT: An 85-year-old woman, who was beaten and tortured by her 60-year-old daughter-in-law, was rescued by the police from the Varachha area on Saturday. Alerted by a resident of a neighbouring apartment, who shot the video of the incident, cops came to the rescue of Kanta Solanki.
Later, a team from the Varachha police station shifted her to an old age home in Amroli. Solanki refused to lodge a complaint against her daughter-in-law Taruna or any other family members.
It came to fore that Solanki was beaten many times in the recent past. Meanwhile, a neighbour noticed the ill-treatment meted out to the senior citizen and shot a video when Taruna was hitting Solank in the gallery of the apartment.
Police officials informed that earlier Solanki lived in Talaja of Bhavnagar with her husband Girdhar. Around six months ago her husband died and Solanki was brought to the city by her three sons, who had decided that each one would keep the mother at their place for a month.
Solanki first went to stay with Bharat and as none of her other two sons came to pick her up, she was staying with him for the past six months. “Due to old age Solanki has developed physical and mental problems. She is not able to carry out her daily routines without someone’s help,” a police official said.