Hyderabad, Aug. 18 -- In a troubling incident, a 39-year-old Muslim man was arrested on charges of raping his mother multiple times. The victim reported he was "punishing her" for suspected infidelity.

The 65-year-old victim, accompanied by her daughter, lodged a complaint with the Hauz-Qazi police station alleging her son, Mohammed Firoz alias Suhel, assaulted her for the first time on August 1, upon her return from a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia with her septuagenarian husband and daughter.

During the trip, Firoz had called her "repeatedly, accusing his mother of having an affair and demanding his father divorce her," police said.

Upon their return, Firoz reportedly assaulted his mother twice. Unable to bear the torture by her son, she...