Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Niece pours hot water on sleeping aunt for scolding her

Upset over being scolded, a teenage girl poured hot water on her sleeping aunt and hit her with a wooden stick leaving her hospitalised in Pune.

Forty-five year old Kumuda Tripathi, a college teacher, asked her 19-year-old niece Namita to lower the TV volume, which triggered a violent reaction from the girl, who smashed the remote.

Annoyed by Namita's reaction, Kumuda gave her a slap. Seething with anger, the niece collected a bucketful of hot water from the geyser and poured it on the aunt who was sleeping.

Namita then took a wooden leg of a 'divan' and hit Kumda leaving her writhing in pain, police said.

The girl, who had come to stay with the Tripathis' from Orissa two years ago was looking after household chores of the family, was arrested for attempt to murder.

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