A 39-year-old woman rescued her mother – a retired bank officer – from her father’s torture by dialling the police’s helpline number 100. Kolkata Police reacted to the complaint and rescued the woman. The incident took place at an apartment block on Diamond Harbour Road under Thakurpukur police station last Wednesday night.
The 70-year-old man, a retired official of a public sector bank, in a fit of rage started beating up his wife and daughter. The young woman somehow managed to escape from the scene of the violence and slipped into another room in the apartment and called up Thakurpukur police. However, the police station did not react promptly. Then she took to Twitter. Her plea to the police was to save her mother from her father’s rage. She also wrote that she had somehow managed to lock herself up in a room to avoid being beaten up by her father, who otherwise could have snatched her phone and broke it into pieces.
Instead of waiting further, she then dialled 100 and her call reached the control room in Lalbazar, the Kolkata Police’s headquarters. On receiving the call, the complaint was transferred from the police headquarters to the Thakurpukur police station, instructing them to take prompt action.
Within 10 minutes, officials of Thakurpukur police station landed in the apartment and arrested the 70-year-old man accused of torturing his wife and daughter. He was later released on bail.
The accused has in turn alleged that his daughter has tortured him and that she was short tempered.
