A woman allegedly poured hot oil and chili powder on her husband while he was sleeping in their home in India, which caused him to sustain “dangerous” injuries.
Dinesh Kumar was sleeping alongside his wife, Sadhna Kumar, and their daughter at their home in Delhi’s Madangir area when he woke up with a pain across his face and torso around 3:15 a.m. on October 2, according to local outlets Hindustan Times, India Today and NDTV.
According to Times of India, Dinesh, 28, claimed he saw Sadhna standing over him with a container of hot oil as she threatened, “If you shout, I will pour more oil on you.”
“Before I could get up or call for help, she sprinkled red chilli powder on my burns,” Kumar told police, according to the outlet.
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Their neighbors could hear Dinesh’s screams and they knocked on the couple’s front door, but their attempts to help were ignored, according to India Today. The couple’s landlord eventually called his brother-in-law, Ram Sagar, to help, and Dinesh was rushed to the hospital, according to the Hindustan Times.
“On the day of the incident, we heard Dinesh screaming,” Anjali, the landlord’s daughter, told India Today TV. “When we went upstairs, his wife wasn’t opening the door, and he was badly burnt. He kept saying that his wife had poured hot oil and chilli powder on him.
“They had moved into our house around seven months ago,” she added of Dinesh and Sadhna.
NDTV reported that Dinesh was moved from a local hospital to Safdarjung Hospital for treatment due to the severity of his burns. Additionally, police told the outlet that his injuries were “dangerous.”
While the incident is being investigated, Sadhna has not been arrested for the alleged assault.
The recent incident took place amid the couples’ previous issues during their eight-year marriage, and Hindustan Times reported that law enforcement had been called in to intervene with their arguments in the past.
Despite having many issues in the eight years since they’ve been married, the couple has continued to live together and reconciled.
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It is believed the couple was fighting before they went to sleep the night of the alleged assault, per India Today. Meanwhile, NDTV reported that Dinesh told police that he ate dinner after he returned home from work and then went to bed.
“Our investigation revealed that the woman had earlier filed a complaint against her husband at the Crime Against Women (CAW) Cell two years ago. The matter was resolved, but she filed another complaint a few weeks ago,” an officer said in a statement to Hindustan Times.
