Suspicious Indian sews up wife’s genitals with iron wires

A villager in eastern India sewed up his wife’s private parts with iron wire after getting suspicious that her wife has illicit relationship with someone, police said today.

Police said Sannimar Munda of coalfield areas in Dhanbad from Jharkhand state, 288 km south of Bihar capital of Patna, suddenly lost his temper when his wife asked to visit her parents’ house on Tuesday.

“In a fit of anger, the man branded his wife with a hot iron rod and stitched up her private parts with iron wires”, the Dhanbad district superintendent of police Suman Gupta said today.

Police said the victim has been been admitted to a local Pataliputra Medical College and Hospital where her condition is stated to be very critical.

“The next 24 hours is very critical since there are chances of her getting infected with tetanus”, a doctor who did the operation said today.