The video of an elderly woman being beaten by her grandchildren that has gone viral on the social media has been “exaggerated” and is just a "joke", police said today after questioning those involved in the incident.

Cheras OCPD Chong Kok Sin said during initial investigations, the victim revealed that the incident captured on the video was just with a group of friends joking around.

"This is the group of friends she stays with and that's how they joke with one another," Chong told Malaysiakini today.

The victim herself also did not want the investigations to continue and that she is happy where she is staying, he said.

Even the person who lodged the police report, the victim's granddaughter, has since retracted her report, Chong added.

According to the police, there was no sign of any injury sustained on the woman ( photo ).

The video, which was circulated on the social media yesterday, depicted an elderly Indian woman who is seen squatting on the ground and being hit several times by a younger woman.

The elderly woman then tossed a bowl of water at the younger woman, who then pushed her to the ground and started hitting her with her hands again, before picking up a cloth belt to hit her again.

Meanwhile, some of the others in the video tried to pull them apart and later a young girl is also seen hitting her. Some foul words in Tamil are also heard in the background.

According to the police, the victim has two middle-aged sons but refuses to stay with them as she does not get along with her daughters-in-law.

She has been living with these housemates for about three months now and insisted to the police that she is comfortable there as she is fed and her clothes washed by her housemates.

Meanwhile, Puchong MIC division Youth chief Subash Chandra Bose told Malaysiakini that they too have visited the elderly woman in the video after receiving messages and calls from concerned members of the public who saw the video.

Subash said they were also told the same story by the woman, that the whole thing was set up as a joke.

MIC Youth to keep watch

"She said she's okay, happy and that it was just a game.

“We have even prepared a shelter home for her, but she said no and asked us to leave it as it is," Subash said.

However, he is doubtful about the incident, saying that the neighbours told him that the elderly woman was threatened over the incident.

To be certain, he said, he has instructed MIC Youth members in Cheras to keep a close eye on her.

Not only that, he said, MIC Youth would try to help her as she is not doing well, financially and health-wise.

"We will give her welfare help so she will get something to ease her daily life. That's the best we can do at this moment," Subash said.

Another video clip that has also gone viral on the social media shows the woman, in the house, pleading for the video clip to be erased.

She says that the children were only playing with her. “I have no wounds. I didn’t bleed… please delete that video,” she says.

And she adds in another video clip shot with the MIC Youth leader Subash: “I was playing with my grandchildren. It is not true that they beat me. I was playing with them.

“I am staying with them. They look after me. Please delete the video."