India, Oct. 31 -- A day after a radiologist from Ambernath was brutally attacked by her husband with an iron pestle in a fit of rage over a Facebook comment, the accused, Vishwambhar Shinde, 50, was produced before a local court on Thursday and remanded in police custody.

The Ambernath police have booked Shinde under several sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, including section 85 (cruelty by husband or his relatives towards a woman), 118(2) (voluntarily causing grievous hurt with dangerous means), 351(2) (criminal intimidation) and 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke a breach of peace).

According to police, the incident took place around 4.30 am on Wednesday at the couple's flat in Mohan Suburbia, an upscale...