AURANGABAD: Counselling efforts to strike a patch-up between husband and wife went awry when the hubby suddenly grew violent, started beating his wife and also tried to strangle her in the family court premises under the Vedantnagar

on Wednesday.

Police said that around 12pm on Wednesday, a counselling session was in progress, when the counsellor as well as both the estranged husband and wife were being convinced to go for a compromise. During the session, when the woman raised some issues, the man grew angry and

her brutally in a fit of rage. He beat her up so brutally that she had her shoulder fractured. The man’s mother, who had also accompanied him, also warned the complainant of dire consequences.

The woman was rushed to the government medical college and hospital while the police have registered an offence against the mother-son duo under IPC Sections 325 (for voluntary causing grievance hurt which may attract imprisonment up to 7 years), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention). Police said that they are looking out for the suspects.