Neighbour Abused Mother and Destroyed Sister's Phone During Property Dispute — What You Can Do

It started with a tree. In early March 2025, a family in the Gomti Nagar area of Lucknow found themselves in a rapidly worsening situation when their neighbours began felling trees along the shared boundary of their property — without any prior notice, consent, or discussion. Kavita Reddy, the mother, along with her daughter Sneha Reddy, stepped out peacefully to object. Sneha began recording the incident on her phone, which was a sensible step. What followed was deeply disturbing: the elderly man from the neighbour's side hurled abusive language at Kavita, then forcibly snatched Sneha's phone and smashed it against the ground. No physical retaliation came from the Reddy family. None.

The family's younger son, Arjun, barely seventeen at the time, reached out feeling completely lost. They'd initially approached a general civil lawyer who advised them to wait and negotiate. That approach yielded nothing. The neighbours kept cutting trees. It was only after the family consulted Advocate Sudhir Rao and presented the full facts, including what remained of the recorded footage recovered from cloud backup, that a proper criminal complaint strategy was put in motion. A well-structured FIR was filed before the jurisdictional police station, and a concurrent application for property protection was initiated. The specialised handling of both the criminal and property angles together made a real difference to how quickly authorities responded.

You can read about this case in detail at https://sudhirrao.com/neighbour-abused-mother-destroyed-phone-property-dispute-leg/