An elderly mother was caught on cam being thrashed by a man on the streets of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh because she called out a maniac that was repeatedly teasing her teenage daughter.

@saurabh3vedi shared the video on Twitter and wrote along with the caption: “An elderly woman was brutally assaulted in Kavi Nagar area of #Ghaziabad after she raised her voice against the eve-teasing of her daughter by the same man.”

Watch the entire video below:

An elderly woman was brutally assaulted in Kavi Nagar area of #Ghaziabad after she raised her voice against the eve teasing of her daughter by the same man. pic.twitter.com/nOG7nxxhIY

— Saurabh Trivedi (@saurabh3vedi) September 15, 2020

In the video above, the woman could be seen tripping and falling when a man was beating her up.

The man then went up to pick up a chair that was outside a shop and used it to thrash the poor elderly woman.

It was reported that the woman raised her voice against the man as he was repeatedly teasing her daughter.

वादी द्वारा लिखायी गयी FIR में छेडखानी का जिक्र नहीं है सिर्फ मारपीट का जिक्र है अभियुक्त को गिरफ्तार कर वैधानिक कार्रवाई की जा रही है pic.twitter.com/OY4kxqxK6P

— GHAZIABAD POLICE (@ghaziabadpolice) September 15, 2020

After the video went viral on Twitter, the Ghaziabad police took it to Twitter to say that the incident happened on September 12, 2020.

The man in the video was later arrested by the police.

In a tweet that was written in Hindi, the police said that an FIR (First Information Report) was filed against the man, who was not identified.

He is facing charges regarding physical violence and nothing about eve-teasing.