Lakhimpur (UP): In a rather horrifying incident, a man in Lakhimpur district of Uttar Pradesh chewed off wife’s nose after she threatened to leave home. The incident was reported from Mudiya village in the Neemgaon area on Sunday where victim Sarojini Devi (34) was allegedly attacked by her husband Moolchand.
On Sunday, the couple had a major quarrel and the husband chewed off the wife’s nose and fled. They were separated, with the wife living with her parents for nearly six months due to fights with Moolchand. She had returned to his home on the advice of the village head.
On her return, the couple had another dispute following which, the victim told her husband that she is going back to her parents’ house. Moolchand took this as an insult to his ego and got into a physical fight with his wife, thrashing her on the ground and later biting her nose off. He ran away from his home after carrying out the heinous crime in an attempt to hide from the authorities and the villagers.
Police have registered an FIR in the matter at the Neemgaon police station on accounts of domestic violence. As the number of women becoming victims of domestic violence is increasing in our country, the lockdown which was brought out for our safety against the virus has enlarged that number. Boredom driven men are beating up their wives in spite of having no work and staying at home because of the worldwide crisis.
National Commission for Women (NCW ) has received 315 domestic violence cases in April alone mid lockdown. India is seeing a surge in such cases after the lockdown. India’s National Commission for Women (NCW) on Friday said it registered 587 domestic violence complaints between March 23 and April 16 – a significant surge from 396 complaints received in the previous 25 days between February 27 and March 22. One in six new complaints of domestic violence was made over a relaunched WhatsApp number. That WhatsApp number had been out of use for some time suggesting there could have been more complaints that never got through.
The NCW relies on women to report domestic violence on its fixed helpline numbers and through the post, two modes of communication that have been closed since the lockdown.
The Commission then publicised the email address of its members and began receiving complaints on social media and through its online portal. In India, only one-third of the female population has access to the internet and in such times, many cases will go unreported.
According to the NFHS study, 52 percent of women and 42 percent of men believed that a husband is justified in beating his wife. Showing disrespect towards the in-laws topped the list of reasons respondents deemed it acceptable to subject a wife to a beating.
Sarojini faced a similar situation getting hit by her husband, Moolchand.
Rajkumar, the Station House Officer (SHO) of Neemgaon police station, said, “We have booked the accused under IPC section 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt) and he will be arrested soon.”
The victim has been admitted to the hospital and her condition is stable.
