Husband beating in the capital New Delhi is reported to be on the rise.
Police from the Crime Against Women Cell said an increasing number of wives across the social scale in New Delhi were assaulting their husbands.
'The harassment is no longer one-sided. The only difference now is the steadily increasing number of complaining husbands,' said a police officer.
Of the 9,000 cases of harassment registered by the Cell over the past year, around 10 to 15 per cent were of women harassing and beating up their husbands, he said.
Some months ago a wife gave her husband a severe beating with a slipper in front of several policemen in the Cell office.
Another was recently arrested on charges of hiring attackers to beat up her husband the day after their marriage. She then made off with all the wedding gifts.
An increasing number of wives involved in cases of marital discord harass their husbands by making false accusations which normally take years to sort out in laborious court proceedings.