Bangladeshi woman cuts off penis of man she says tried to rape her, submits it as evidence
A 40-year-old Bangladeshi woman cut off the penis of a man she said was trying to rape her and brought it to the local authorities as evidence, the local police said Monday.
The incident took place in the Jhalakathi district, a remote area 120 miles south of the capital, Dhaka, AFP reported. Monju Begum, 40, a married mother of three, told police that her neighbor, Mozammel Haq Mazi, forced his way into her home and attacked her. Mazi has denied the allegations. Begum has filed an attempted rape case against Mazi, saying that the married father of five had been harassing her for six months. Mazi, who has been hospitalized, said that he had been having an affair with Begum but had refused her request to leave his wife and children and go to Dhaka with her, and that she had cut off his penis in anger, BBC reported. A surgeon at the hospital said it had not been possible to reattach the penis.The severed penis has been kept at the police station.