Andhra Woman Forced To Dip Hands In Boiling Oil To Prove Fidelity, Saved

Puthalapattu, Andhra Pradesh: 

A 50-year-old mother of four in Andhra Pradesh was saved from dipping her hands into boiling oil to prove her fidelity to her husband, thanks to the timely intervention of a government official following a tip-off.

The incident was reported in a tribal community at Thatithopu village near Thenepalle of Puthalapattu mandal in Chittoor district on Thursday, an official said.

“Around 10:30 am, the woman was about to take the boiling oil test but I went there in the nick of time and rescued her,” the Panchayat Raj Department official told news agency PTI.

As per the ritual, five litres of oil was brought to boiling point and poured into a new earthen pot decorated with flowers for the ‘fidelity test’, as elders and villagers gathered to witness it, said the official.

Incidentally, the woman’s 57-year-old husband had been suspecting her fidelity for a long time and finally took it up with the elders of his tribal community to put her wife’s character to test.

The woman’s husband had allegedly manhandled her several times, the official said.