Confronted with the possibility of divorce on the grounds of impotence, a 32-year-old man from Hyderabad made a pornographic video with another woman and sent a five-minute clip of the recording to his wife’s father and aunt to disprove the charge belittling his manhood.

The bizarre attempt to hit back at his estranged wife did not go down well with anybody. Police arrested Vibavasu, a resident of Lal Bahadur Nagar in Hyderabad, on a complaint by his wife Anusha’s family, and a court sent him to jail.

Vibavasu married Anusha of Muthamizh Nagar, Kodungaiyur, in 2016, in a marriage arranged by Anusha’s parents, said inspector D Chithra of the MKB Nagar all-women police.