Bhopal: Viral video shows angry wife thrashing husband's alleged girlfriend in gym
Bhopal, Oct 18: Cross complaints were registered with Bhopal police in Madhya Pradesh after a woman hit another woman in a gym suspecting that the latter was having an affair with her husband, the video of the incident going viral on social media, an official said on Monday.
The incident took place on October 15 in the capital's Koh-e-Fiza area and the cases were filed on Sunday after the video went viral, he added.
Koh-e-Fiza police station in charge Anil Bajpai on Monday said a 30-year-old woman, along with her sister, reached the gym where her husband was exercising in the presence of his alleged girlfriend and others.
"The woman suspected that her husband was having a relationship with this woman in the gym. She started hitting the latter with shoes while others, including the man, tried to stop her. The entire ruckus went on for 10 minutes. On Sunday, the woman and her husband lodged complaints against each other," he said.
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The man, a resident of Noormahal Road here, has denied his wife's allegations and has claimed he does not even know the woman who is being labelled his alleged girlfriend, he said.
Cases
were
registered
under
Indian
Penal
Code
(IPC)
sections
323
(voluntarily
causing
hurt),
294
(obscene
act)
and
506
(criminal
intimidation),
Bajpai
said,
adding
that
the
woman
had,
earlier,
filed
a
harassment
and
dowry
case
against
her
husband
in
Shahjahanabad
police
station
here.
The
woman
has
been
living
with
her
parents
since
then,
and
notices
are
being
served
on
the
couple
for
interrogation,
Bajpai
added.
In
the
2.15
minute
video,
the
woman
in
burkha
can
be
seen
grappling
with
her
husband
first
and
then
assaulting
another
woman,
in
gym
clothes
and
sports
shoes,
standing
nearby.