Police in eastern India have arrested a man who chopped off his wife's tongue to stop her constant nagging.
Enadul Mullick dragged his wife Halima by the hair to the kitchen where he used a cleaver to cut off her tongue.
The 30-year-old victim has been admitted to a hospital at Barasat near Calcutta and is reportedly fighting for her life but it's not known whether doctors managed to reattach her tongue.
It's reported her 40-year-old husband, who runs a grocery store, was fed up with the wife's complaints over his meagre income.
Hindustan Times reports police spokesman Parveen Kumar telling the Indo Asian News Service: "The couple were not on good terms.
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Enadul Mullick dragged his wife Halima by the hair to the kitchen where he used a cleaver to cut off her tongue.
The 30-year-old victim has been admitted to a hospital at Barasat near Calcutta and is reportedly fighting for her life but it's not known whether doctors managed to reattach her tongue.
It's reported her 40-year-old husband, who runs a grocery store, was fed up with the wife's complaints over his meagre income.
Hindustan Times reports police spokesman Parveen Kumar telling the Indo Asian News Service: "The couple were not on good terms.
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