In a horrifying incident, a 31-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Mahoba was brutally thrashed and left to die by her husband and in-laws for being unable to bear a male child. The woman, who was assaulted with a wooden stick, is critical and being treated at a hospital.
Police said the woman has two daughters aged seven and two years. Superintendent of Police, Mahoba, Sudha Singh said the woman, a resident of Ramnagar Jukha area under Kotwali Police station, was attacked by her husband and in-laws on Thursday night.
“In her complaint, the woman alleged that she was assaulted by her in-laws for not bearing a son. Her husband also forced a wooden stick into her private parts,” she said. The ordeal didn’t end there as the woman was then abandoned outside her in-laws’ house as her husband and other accused fled, police added.
According to the woman, her in-laws subjected her to daily harassment and torture for not bearing a male child. Police have lodged an FIR based on the woman’s complaint under Section 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code against the woman’s husband and in-laws, the SP said.
Police are making efforts to arrest the accused, she said.
(With PTI inputs)
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