Ahmednagar: An Indian Army jawan filed a case against his wife and her suspected lover alleging that they attempted to kill him. According to the soldier, the duo spiked an ointment used for sexual pleasure with poison, and when he used it he fell sick. The case was filed at Nagar Taluka police station in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra on Sunday.

The jawan in his complaint said, when he returned home from work, his wife gave him an ointment to apply on his private parts and told him that it would help in attaining "increased sexual pleasure". After applying the ointment, he suffered severe pain and eventually fell sick. When he approached a local doctor, he was told that the ointment might have been spiked with some poisonous substance and it could have proved fatal but he was "lucky to survive".