Kolkata, June 1: The fact that plucking flowers can anger someone and cause brawls sounds unreal. But in a shocking incident in Kolkata, a young woman ended up beating her mother-in-law for this petty reason. A video of same which shows the brawl between them has gone viral on social media ,after which the police has arrested the accused.

In the viral video, the woman pulls the hair of an elderly woman and behaves with her inhumanly. News report say that the video was captured by neighbours after they witnessed the incident and they uploaded it on social media, which was later widely circulated.

Immediately after the video of the assault went viral, the police found-out the accused based on the video footage and identified her as Swapna Pal.

The police in their Facebook post said that the victim identified as 75-year-old widow Jashoda Pal suffers from amnesia and thus could not file a complaint on her own. It also confirmed that the accused beat up the senior citizen merely because she plucked flowers without her permission. Also, the violence against Jashoda was a regular affair in the household, mentioned the Facebook post.

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