A woman who urinated in her in-laws' cups of tea everyday for a year was caught red-handed when her mother-in-law walked into the kitchen and found her squatting over the teapot.

Angered that her in-laws had stopped her husband from doing chores around the home, she sought revenge by urinating in their cups of tea for more than a year.

Rekha Nagvanshi, 30, had turned on her husband's parents at the home she shared with husband Deepak, 34, in the district of Indore in central India's Madhya Pradesh State.

Rekha Nagvanshi (pictured), 30, was caught urinating into the tea she was serving to her in-laws

Claiming she would rather live with her parents, she was said to be unhappy about her arranged marriage and felt she was being treated poorly.

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.

'But after moving out, he begged her to go back for the sake of their four-year-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.

Nagvanshi was said to be unhappy that her husband's parents had stopped their son from doing chores around the home. Here she is pictured with her husband Deepak

'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.'