India, Oct. 9 -- A 28-year-old man in Delhi's Madangir area woke up in the middle of the night to a searing pain and the sight of his wife standing over him with a container of boiling oil, police said on Wednesday.

He reportedly said in his complaint that at around 3:15 am, he woke up to finding his wife pouring boiling oil on his torso and face, and later sprinkling red chilli on his burns. "'Agar shor machaya to aur garam tel daal doongi (I will pour more hot oil if you raise alarm'," the husband alleged his wife told him, according to news agency PTI.

The victim, identified as Dinesh Kumar, who works with a pharmaceutical company, was initially taken to Madan Mohan Malviya Hospital and later shifted to Safdarjung Hospital for advanc...