Caught on camera: Woman brutally assaults elderly mother-in-law

January 12, 2016 10:27

In CCTV footage from a home in Uttar Pradesh, an elderly woman is seen wrapped in a quilt, cowering in her bed as she is slapped, kicked, choked and beaten with a brick.

Her attacker is her own daughter-in-law.Sangeeta Jain was arrested this morning for attempted murder after the video of her vicious assault on her 70-year-old mother-in-law Raj Rani Jain went viral on social media.

The disturbing visuals are from January 5, when only the two women were inside their home in Bijnore.Sangeeta is seen mercilessly beating the older woman, at times trying to strangle her with a cloth, dragging her and slapping her repeatedly.

She pauses only to get a brick and then starts raining fresh blows, jumping on the bed.

Watch the terrifying video (external link)

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