<p>An Uttar Pradesh status rank minister, who had recently shared a video riding a virtual bike and dancing, which was recorded using video app Tik-Tok, filed a divorce application in a court after his wife accused him of ''torture'' and ''harassment''.</p>.<p>Baburam Nishad, who was chairman of the UP Backward Class Finance & Development Corporation and enjoyed the status of a minister of state, accused his wife of being a ''spendthrift'' in his divorce application filed before a court in the state's Hamirpur district, on Wednesday.</p>.<p>The minister's wife, however, shot off a letter to UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath alleging that Nishad, with whom she was married for 14 years, has been ''torturing'' her since their wedding.</p>.<p>''He (Nishad) used to threaten me at gun point... urinate on me and thrash me badly....he also used to threaten to kill my parents and brothers,'' she said in her letter.</p>.<p>The wife also said that she had filed a police complaint at Kaiserbagh police station in the state capital a few months back but the cops, in apparent collusion with the minister, disposed off her complaint without taking any action against Nishad.</p>.<p>She urged the chief minister to act against his husband. The wife has also narrated her plight in a series of posts on Facebook.</p>.<p>Nishad, however, rejected the allegations and said that his wife always ''quarrelled'' with him. ''She always demands money... she spends a lot,'' the minister said.</p>
<p>An Uttar Pradesh status rank minister, who had recently shared a video riding a virtual bike and dancing, which was recorded using video app Tik-Tok, filed a divorce application in a court after his wife accused him of ''torture'' and ''harassment''.</p>.<p>Baburam Nishad, who was chairman of the UP Backward Class Finance & Development Corporation and enjoyed the status of a minister of state, accused his wife of being a ''spendthrift'' in his divorce application filed before a court in the state's Hamirpur district, on Wednesday.</p>.<p>The minister's wife, however, shot off a letter to UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath alleging that Nishad, with whom she was married for 14 years, has been ''torturing'' her since their wedding.</p>.<p>''He (Nishad) used to threaten me at gun point... urinate on me and thrash me badly....he also used to threaten to kill my parents and brothers,'' she said in her letter.</p>.<p>The wife also said that she had filed a police complaint at Kaiserbagh police station in the state capital a few months back but the cops, in apparent collusion with the minister, disposed off her complaint without taking any action against Nishad.</p>.<p>She urged the chief minister to act against his husband. The wife has also narrated her plight in a series of posts on Facebook.</p>.<p>Nishad, however, rejected the allegations and said that his wife always ''quarrelled'' with him. ''She always demands money... she spends a lot,'' the minister said.</p>
