India, July 7 -- The son of a retired IAS officer was arrested for allegedly attacking a woman with a brick after she refused to marry him in Uttar Pradesh's Bithoor.

The victim, a widow employed at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K), sustained serious head and facial injuries in the assault by Devashish Nigam, son of retired IAS officer Chandra Nigam, news agency PTI reported.

The woman is now undergoing treatment at Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital. According to police, she regained consciousness nearly 24 hours after the incident.

According to the police and the First Information Report (FIR), the incident took place on Saturday when Nigam picked up the woman in his car from near the IIT-Kanpur campus and drove towards Brahm...