NEW DELHI, July 3 — A villager wanting to test his wife’s fidelity decided to do a medieval test by dipping her hands in a pot of boiling oil.
Since her hands were badly burnt during the test, he concluded she was unfaithful and threw her out of the house in the middle of the night, the Indian Express newspaper reported.
The husband, Rajbhan Yadav, in his 30s, a farmer from Bhitoni village in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, a central Indian state, had been suspecting his 25-year-old wife Anuj Bai of having an affair and often tortured her.
The mother of three was forced to dip her hands four times in the boiling oil in the kitchen, the report said.
In the first two attempts Anuj did not sustain any injury as the oil was not hot but the unsatisfied Rajbhan forced her to repeat the test.
“Rajbhan came home Wednesday night and asked Anuj to prove her loyalty. He asked her to dip her hands in boiling oil to prove her fidelity saying that her hands would not burn if she was honest,” a local police officer told journalists.
According to the news report, Anuj’s parents urged her not to lodge a police complaint as it was a common practice.
Villagers also refused to give evidence against the husband but police locked him up after the wife lodged a report. Anuj is undergoing medical treatment while Rajbhan is out on bail. – Bernama
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