In a shocking incident, a 32-year-old inebriated man has been arrested for allegedly killing his mother-in-law by flinging her out of the window of a flat in a building at Thane after she tried to prevent him assaulting her daughter.
The incident happened at Rumah Bali Society, near Hiranandani Estates, an upmarket complex of Thane, on Monday night when 68-year-old Paramjit Kaur had gone to meet her deaf-mute daughter Tarvinder Kaur (38) who recently married the accused who is younger than her daughter.
Paramjit died instantly after she was allegedly thrown by her son-in-law from of the first-floor flat where the newly married couple stayed.
The accused son-in-law Ankush Dhiraj Bhatti, who was arrested immediately after the incident, has been charged with murder. “We produced the accused before a local court today and he has remanded to police custody till September 15,” Investigating Officer Pradeep N. Ugale of Kasarwadavali Police Station said.
A resident of Jammu in Jammu & Kashmir, Bhatti runs a logistics company. He had recently married deaf-mute Tarvinder, who is six years’ older to him. Kaurs used to live with Bhatti at Hiranandani Estates. However, Bhatti, who is an alcoholic, moved out to the nearby Rumah Bali Society as he needed privacy.
According to Ugale, mother-in-law Paramjit used to her daughter and son-in-law every day to enquire about the well-being of her handicapped daughter, who used to be beaten up regularly by Bhatti.
The situation was no different at her son-in-law's place at 8.30 on on Monday when Paramjit went to see her daughter. Paramjit witnessed her drunk son-in-law Bhatti assault her daughter-in-law. Paramjit could not hold herself. While trying to preventing Bhatti from continuing to assault her daughter, Paramjit slapped him.
“Unable to stomach the ego of having been slapped by his mother-in-law, Bhatti in his inebriated state and in a fit of rage — pushed his mother-in-law to window, lifted her and threw her out. Though it was a first floor flat, the victim fell from a height of around 20 feet and died instantly,” Ugale said.
The residents in the housing society rushed badly injured Paramjit to a nearby hospital, but she was declared dead upon admission. After the incident, Bhatti had locked himself and his wife up in their flat home.
Meanwhile, Paramjit’s son Manjit Singh was desperately trying to call his mother on her mobile phone. With no response from his mother, Manjit rushed to his sister Tarvinder’s flat, but nobody answered the door.
Before long, Bhatti raised a false alarm saying that his mother-in-law had slipped and fallen out of the window and he had run down to the society compound to save her.
Having doubted Bhatti’s version, the police inspected the flat window to find some blood stains apparently that of Paramjit. During the prolonged questioning, Bhatti confessed to having thrown his mother-in-law out of the window of the flat leading to her tragic death.