Lawyer stabs daughter for filming his ‘misdeeds’ in Vadodara

VADODARA: An advocate living on RV Desai Road stabbed his daughter on Wednesday after he caught her filming him while he was forcing his mother and the maid to give statements against his wife.
Accused Pankaj Jain has been facing charges of domestic violence and was pressurizing his mother Premlata and their household help to record their statements against his wife Sangita which he was recording on his mobile phone.However, his daughter Jaisal noticed her father using pressure tactics to gather evidence against his wife and started to video record his illegal act on her phone.
Jaisal wanted to keep evidence if her father employed his devious plans to use the recorded statements against her mother. But Jain saw Jaisal shooting his video and started hurling abuses at her. In a fit of rage he beat her up and threw her phone outside the house in the compound. Jaisal, a student of MS University’s arts faculty, ran outside to collect her phone, but Jain followed suit and prevented her from getting her phone.
In the heat of the moment, Jain also hurled a knife he was carrying in his hand at Jaisal, injuring her in her right armpit. He soon realized the seriousness of his act and threw the knife before escaping from his house.
Jain’s mother and her brother took her to SSG Hospital where she was discharged after treatment. Later, she went to Navapura police station where an offence of attempt to commit culpable homicide, assault and insulting was registered against the father. Jain is yet to be arrested.
A police official said that in the past too, Sangita has lodged complaints against Jain for creating ruckus in the house after coming home in an inebriated condition. In her complaint, even Jaisal alleged that for the past several years her father had fought with her brother Rutang, mother Sangita and also with her over petty reasons and often resorted to violence.