Incident Reports

Elderly woman subjected to domestic violence in Siraha

2020-11-25

Madhes, Siraha, Nawarajpur, Ward 3

Speaking at a program organized at Janata High School in Siraha on November 25, an 85-year-old woman, Srivati ​​Yadav of Mazhaura village in Siraha's Nawarajpur Rural Municipality-3 accused her son and daughter-in-law of subjecting her to domestic violence. They have been beating her after the division of ancestral property. They did not even give food to her, she stated.

Rights activists and journalists reached her home after she expressed her grief where the daughter-in-law denied the accusations. Daughter-in-law responded that they did not make her citizenship due to the fear that the mother would give all property to her daughter.

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Interpersonal
Primary Form Assault (small group)
Weapons None
Primary Cause Domestic violence
Actor 1 - Number of people 2
Actor 1 - Affiliations Family/relative
Actor 1 - Youth na
Actor 2 - Number of people 1
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Family/relative
Actor 2 - Youth noyouth
National/Online Media

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