Lucknow, May 16 :     Lucknow police today arrested international cricketer and Uttar Pradesh Ranji team captain Gyanendra Pandey under the Dowry Act. Pandey, who has represented India in three one-day internationals, is alleged to have battered wife Pratima, drugged her and taken nude photographs when she protested. Twenty-six-year-old Pratima, discharged today from the Shyama Prasad Mukherji hospital, is still in a state of shock. In his application to the Ghazipur police, Pratima's father, R.S. Sharma, stated that Pandey had been harassing Pratima and beating her for not bringing adequate dowry. Sharma, who had held back from filing an FIR in the hope of 'reaching a compromise' with Pandey, finally approached the police late last night and complained that on Saturday his daughter was severely assaulted by an inebriated Pandey, who demanded a car and Rs 50,000 in cash. Sharma said in the complaint that when Pratima threatened to divorce Pandey, he blackmailed her with the photographs. Sharma said that on the evening of May 13, he received a telephone call from his neighbours in Kanpur that the 'life of his daughter was in danger'. On rushing from Kanpur, Sharma found that Pratima was 'badly injured' and in a state of shock. It was then that he rushed her to a hospital and approached the police. Pandey, who is in judicial custody, however, maintains that he had always 'helped' Pratima's family financially and that he has been framed. He said that when he wanted to put an end to their constant demands, they threatened to approach the police and charge him with dowry harrasment. But neighbours claim that on Saturday they heard shrieks from Pandey's Indira Nagar apartment.