AHMEDABAD: A 35-year-old woman from the Hirawadi area of the city on Wednesday filed a complaint of violence against her husband, as he beat her severely on Tuesday night when she asked him not to play a game on his mobile phone.

The complainant, who has an eight-year-old son, in her FIR with Krishnanagar police said that she had asked her husband to spend time with her rather than playing games on his phone. The advice did not down go well with the man, who verbally abused her and then assaulted her.

The woman was upset and tried to hang herself. Her husband and mother-in-law prevented her from committing suicide and rushed her to the Asarwa Civil Hospital . Hospital staff registered a medico-legal case and informed police about the incident. In the wee hours of Wednesday, police took the woman’s statement in which she alleged torture by her husband and in-laws ever since her wedding in 2007.

Around three years ago, she had filed her first complaint of domestic violence, but had later struck a ‘compromise’ with her husband and in-laws.On Tuesday night, her husband assaulted her again after she advised him not to play games on his phone.

Inspector Vishnu Chaudhari of Krishnanagar police said that he did not know which game the man was playing. Police registered a case under the Domestic Violence Act and began an inquiry.