Man arrested for pouring boiling oil on wife, teen daughter in Bengaluru

In Bengaluru on the night of January 30, a man returned to the home from which he had already been expelled that evening — drunk, carrying heated oil — and visited a violence upon his wife and young daughter that the law now classifies as attempted murder. The act was not impulsive in the way accidents are impulsive; it was a return, a preparation, a choice. It asks the older and harder question that domestic violence has always asked: what does a community owe to those endangered within the walls it cannot see through.