Police detained the man who along with his wife allegedly tortured his eighty-five-year-old mother in Thakurgaon's Haripur upazila on Wednesday night. 

Bodir Uddin, 60, eldest son of victim Taslema Khatun of Dangipara village in the upazila, was held near Dangipara High School intersection around 9:00pm.       

Police and locals said Taslema lost her husband around 25 years ago. She has two sons and two daughters, who live in the same upazila. After the death of her husband, Taslema used to live with Bodir. 

Over the last few months, Bodir and his family was putting pressure on Taslema to register her last 25 decimal of land in their names. As the elderly woman did not, Bodir and his family members had frequent altercations with her. 

On Monday, when Taslema went to the kitchen and asked for rice, Bodir's wife Ranu scolded her. At one stage, Ranu poked a stick into the left eye of Taslema and beat her up. 

A few minutes later, Bodir dragged his mother outside the home and told her that if she wanted to stay with them, she would have to register the land in their names, sources said.   

Later, Soyodur Rahman, principal of Haripur Moslemuddin Degree College and also Taslema's neighbour, sent her to Haripur Upazila Health Complex.

The deputy commissioner of Thakurgaon came to know about the matter when another neighbour of the victim Anwar Hossain uploaded a video of the woman on Facebook. 

On Wednesday morning, DC Abdul Awal went to Haripur and took Taslema to Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital, where she is now undergoing treatment.

Doctors said Taslema was out of danger but needed care.           

Officer-in-Charge of Haripur Police Station Ruhul Quddus said preparation was going on to file a case in this connection.