Malda: A group of villagers in West Bengal’s Malda district
allegedly stripped a 33-year-old woman, thrashed her and chopped two fingers of
her left hand after her cow ate grain from a neighbour’s field.
The incident happened at Munnitola village in Malda on
Saturday evening. The woman was admitted to the Malda Medical College and
Hospital in a critical state. “Now the goons are threatening us to withdraw the
police complaint,” the woman said.
Her son was also injured when he went to save his mother,
sources said. The victim’s family lodged a complaint against Harun Sheikh, Lalu
Sheikh, Iftar Sheikh, Ahmed Sheikh and three local goons, police said. The
suspects are on the run.
“I can’t imagine people can strip my wife and try to kill
her. I have already lodged a written complaint with the police against seven
persons,” the woman’s husband said. “I work as a labourer. When the incident
happened, I wasn’t in the village.”
Sources said one of the cows entered Harun’s field and ate
some grain. After this, Harun caught the cow and beat the animal mercilessly,
fracturing two of its legs. Police said when the woman found her cow was being
thrashed, she rushed to Harun’s field and repeatedly requested him to let the
cow go.
But instead of listening to the woman, the men pounced upon
her, stripped her and started beating her. They also tried to hack Ayesha with
a sickle. When she tried to resist the attack with her left hand, her little
finger and ring finger were chopped off. As word of the thrashing spread, her
son Iqbal rushed to the field, only to be attacked by the same men who hit him
on the head with a sickle.
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