The
father of an eight-month-old rape victim allegedly chopped off both
hands of the 17-year-old accused in Punjab’s Bathinda district, India on
Tuesday, April 19.
Parminder Singh had allegedly raped
the man’s 7-month-old daughter in April 2014 and was arrested and
arraigned in court. The victim’s father and the accused, who were
neighbours, met in court for the hearing yesterday and after that, the
victim’s father reportedly asked Parminder to reach a compromise and accompany him on his motorcycle to the village.
When they reached near Jhumba village,
he allegedly tied the teenager to a tree and attacked him with a
sharp-edged weapon. Besides inflicting injuries on his head and other
parts of his body, the man chopped off both his hands, said police.
Some villagers rushed Parminder to the
Bathinda civil hospital, where his condition was stated to be critical.
Dr Ajay Gupta, who treated the victim, said both his hands were chopped
off and cops brought the limbs later.
“He (the father) took him near a dried
up canal, beat him up badly and then tied him to a tree and finall
hacked his hands off. There is nothing below the wrists now,” Swapan
Sharma, a police officer of Bathinda, told AFP by telephone.
“Locals alerted the police and we rushed to the spot. We picked him up, his hands, and took him to the hospital,” Sharma added.
According to Indian Express, the
mother of the baby had allegedly found the accused molesting her child
in April 2014. Police registered a rape case and the teen was sent to a
juvenile remedial home pending trial.
The police said a case of attempted
murder has been registered against the victim’s father, a brick kiln
labourer, who fled after the incident.
Source: Indian Express/Hindustan/AFP
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