Mumbai Crime: Man beats wife with hot spatula over suspicion of affair, held

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A 30-year-old man from Powai has been arrested for beating his 23-year-old wife with hot spatula over a suspicion of affair with a man in the neighbourhood, police said.

As per a Hindustan Times report, Ravishankar Chauhan was employed with a security firm. In her statement the complainant, Pooja, said that her husband would come back home drunk and abuse her.

"On March 6 he came home and started arguing with me and raised suspicion on my character. He alleged that I was having an affair with Karan Rajbhar who lives in our neighbourhood. I objected to his false accusations at which point he got angry and went to the kitchen, put a steel spatula on the gas burner, and after it got super hot he used it to hit me," Puja stated in the FIR.

"The act lasted for over six hours. He branded me with a hot spatula on both my hands, back and also my left cheek," she added.

After this she called her brother who took her and their 3-year-old child to his home.

"He has been booked under sections 324 (Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 506-2 (criminal intimidation), 323 (assault) and 504 (abuse) of Indian Penal Code. He would be produced in court on Tuesday," said an officer from Powai police station.