BHOPAL: A man has been arrested for physically assaulting his wife and forcing her to drink urine. The incident happened on Sunday in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district. The police arrested the man identified as Mahendra Malvia (45) following the complaint lodged by his wife.

Her complaint said that he assaulted her physically and forced her to drink urine over a minor argument. A video of the man assaulting her had gone viral.

The woman said that he used to attack her regularly and he once even tried to set her ablaze by pouring kerosene on her body. She said that she had not told anyone about it but this incident has hurt her self-esteem. She said the recent attack was for addressing him as ‘tu’ (you). She said that she immediately apologized to him but he continued assaulting her. She said that she managed to escape by jumping a six-foot boundary wall while he chased her with a knife.