An octogenarian, who alleged that her husband and youngest son were ill-treating her, filed a petition in a family court for a direction to her husband to pay her Rs 10,000 each month as maintenance.

In her petition on Tuesday, the woman, a city resident, submitted that she was married in February 1945 and has two sons and two daughters.

She claimed that her youngest son and family, living in the same house in which she and her husband stayed, joined hands with her husband and began ill-treating and beating her.

She said she had approached police on September one last year and after counselling her husband had allowed her to stay on the ground floor of their house and agreed to pay her Rs 2,000 as monthly expenses.

She also accused her husband and son of taking away six sovereigns of gold from her purse in November last year. She claimed that she had been locked up in her room and neighbours had to let her out.

The woman claimed that the house was built from the money raised by selling one of the two acres of land given as dowry. The house has been rented out to six tenants, including a shop, and fetched Rs 25,000 a month.

The woman claimed she was spending about Rs 1,500 a month on medical expenses and said that as her grand daughter was married to a policeman, her husband had ‘threatened’ her with dire consequences if she approached the police.