Overview

• The 43-year-old lecturer allegedly barged into his separated wife's rented home in Puri’s Neemapada area around 8 p.m. Tuesday with an associate and assaulted her and a male teacher.
• The victims were subjected to public humiliation, including slipper garlanding and parading the man in his underwear, as onlookers recorded the ordeal.
• Police arrested the husband and one associate the same night and booked them under BNS provisions for assault, outraging a woman’s modesty, public humiliation and criminal intimidation.
• Investigators seized a hammer, garlands, a mobile phone and a motorcycle as evidence following the complaint.
• The complainant, a 37-year-old schoolteacher living apart since May with her 14-year-old son, sustained injuries, and the probe remains ongoing.