Woman who Urinated in her In-law's Cut of Tea for a Year Caught Red Handed

An Indian woman who urinated in her in-laws' pot of tea was caught red-handed when her mother-in-law walked into the kitchen and found her squatting over the teapot.

Rekha Nagvanshi, 30, confessed to urinating in their pot of tea for more than a year all because she was angry with her in-laws for stopping her husband Deepak, 34,from helping her with house chores.

Her friend Alia Kohli, 32 said 'She was very unhappy with her arranged marriage and said her husband treated her like a slave and eventually she decided she'd had enough.

She moved out of her husband house because she was unhappy. Her husband begged her to go back for the sake of their four-years-old daughter.

'She agreed but only if he cooked for her, massaged her feet and did all the washing up.'

But after moving back in, parents-in-law Suraj, 60, and her husband Ajith, 55, found out about the arrangement and tried to stop it.

Kohli said: 'He seemed fine with it but they went mental and accused her of treating him like a slave. Rekha is strong-minded and likes to be independent and the thought of being dictated to by his parents was just too much for her. So I guess that's when she decided to start doing what she did, and urinating in their tea.'

Her disgusted mother-in-law said: 'We used to go and visit them once or twice a week. And although we knew she didn't like us we had no idea she was doing this. She always smiled and offered us tea and we accepted. But one day I went into the kitchen and found her urinating into the teapot.'

After going to the police and being told it was not a case for them, the horrified parents-in-law decided to take out a private prosecution.

Suraj said: 'You cannot urinate into someone's tea for a year and get away with it. We want justice.'

Rekha and her husband Deepak are now understood to be living apart.