Mumbai: An FIR has been registered against a 31-year-old man for assaulting his wife and elderly mother-in-law with a sickle, resulting in grievous injuries. Amar Tikudve, the accused, doubted his wife’s fidelity, police said.Tikudve works as a delivery boy for a food platform while his 29-year-old wife, Monica, is a security guard at Powai. The couple got married in 2017 and have an eight-year-old daughter. Monica’s parents live in the same neighbourhood as the couple at Malad (E).On Sept 7, Tikudve got a sickle home. Two days later, he picked a fight with his wife over her fidelity and started beating her up. Monica called up her sister and said that her husband was threatening to kill her. She also called up a cousin who is a police officer and complained to him. He spoke to Tikudve but to no avail.Later, Monica’s mother visited the couple and asked her daughter to come and live with her. When her mother insisted, Tikudve took out the sickle and hit the 62-year-old woman in the head. When Monica tried to save her mother, he assaulted her on her head, neck, ear and hand. Both the women started to bleed profusely. While Tikudve left, both women were rushed to a civic hospital.Later, police registered an FIR against Tikudve.
