A 79-year-old man has been arrested by the Versova police for allegedly attacking his wife and daughter with a hammer and knife. The police said the accused, Prabhakar Shetty, was opposed to his daughter’s marriage plans and had acted out in a fit of rage after the ring ceremony was organised despite his protestations.

Shetty, his wife Gita and daughter Pranita, 38, resides at Chetna Building at Seven Bungalows in Versova.