Kamlesh’s husband allegedly fled with her nose after the attack
(Picture: Cover Asia Press / Pawan Kumar).
A woman in India has been scarred for life after her husband allegedly cut her nose off because her family were unable to pay a marriage dowry.
Kamlesh Rathore, 25, from Utter Pradesh, northern India, says she was attacked by husband Sanjeev Rathore, 27, who had been demanding a dowry of £550 since they tied the knot eight years ago.
Under Indian custom, a dowry is a gift of cash, jewellery or land that the bride’s family gives to the groom as a condition of their marriage.
But Kamlesh now says that her husband harassed her for the money every day before eventually launching the savage attack.
‘He was constantly demanding 50,000 [rupees], she said.
Kamlesh Rathore, 25, has been left disfigured (Picture: Cover Asia Press/ Pawan Kumar)
‘I repeatedly told him that my father is very poor and he cannot afford such an amount but he did not listen and used to threaten me that he’ll chop off my nose. He has beaten me for years. He’s used belts, slippers, sticks and has always tortured me.’
‘I repeatedly told him that my father is very poor and he cannot afford such an amount but he did not listen and used to threaten me that he’ll chop off my nose. He has beaten me for years. He’s used belts, slippers, sticks and has always tortured me.’
Kamlesh claims that Sanjeev attacked on 14 September as she cooked dinner – and was pinned down by her in-laws as he hacked off her nose.
‘They all grabbed me tightly. I could not move. And then out of nowhere I saw a knife and he chopped off my nose’, Kamlesh said.
People gathered outside Kamlesh’s home after the attack (Picture: Cover Asia Press / Pawan Kumar)
After the attack, Kamlesh was reportedly rushed to a nearby health centre – but medics were unable to reattach the nose because Sanjeev had taken it with him.
Local police now say that they are tracking Sanjeev’s family after they went on the run following the attack.
Kamlesh’s older brother Sachin, 26, said: ‘My sister’s husband has been very cruel. He has given her a terrible life and now this. He even took her nose and gifted it to the gods at his temple. He’s a sick man.’
Culled: Metro
Still sound weird that d women actually pay the dowry in India.
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DeleteUhm? What sort of story is this? He yanked her nose off like you'd remove someone's face cap from their head and runaway. Then he offered her nose to the gods? Pathetic tradition
DeleteSo in India women pay dowry?no wonder they cry so much!what a life.
DeleteIs it not worse than Nigerian women who sleep with multiple men while spending forthe guys and damaging your body in the name of love
DeleteLol @facecap.. he really yanked it of.
DeleteHmm dis life
DeleteIt is India now so I am not shocked. You hear all sorts of weird stories about them and I am beginning to doubt if they are humans, very wicked, fetish strange set of backward people.
DeleteKai! Na wa oh.
DeleteThey better find him and remove his own nose too.*tongue click*,and she should meet Dr Paul Nassif to reconstruct a new nose for her.
ReplyDeleteThis one no be husband na... Na agboro. He's really stupid doing this to a woman, if not for what I'm doing here in Naija, I would ve gone and Fished out his sorry ass.
ReplyDeleteHuh??? 😂 😂... Go na. Make dem use do their holi festival..
DeleteLMAO ��
Delete😀😀 funny you
DeleteDon't know how this culture of women paying dowery will be transferred down here, especially in Igbo land. Make we men, give una women list :)
ReplyDeletelol.
DeleteHehe. E no fit happen
DeleteAlways in India..... But that there custom.....
ReplyDeleteI really feel pity for the women in India. May God help them. Where is our own saloni? Pls come and explain what you and the educated folks in India are doing about the plights of the ordinary India women.
ReplyDeleteReally? He removed his wife's nose and gifted it to his gods? Lol.. He's really sick!!
ReplyDeleteIndians and their culture. May God heal the woman but the husband is wicked.
ReplyDeleteHmmmmmn........what a tradition..........
ReplyDeleteWhat the world is turning into, I'm yet to know... Gods mercy has really been faithful to us
ReplyDeleteNawa o. I don't know where indians got their own culture from.. Even moses had to serve his FIL to get his wives.
ReplyDeleteLol ara dinudi nudi
ReplyDeleteSick culture in their treatment of women. One of the worst countries in the world to be born a woman. Not to mention the hundreds of millions of female fetuses and baby girls these ppl have killed for centuries.
ReplyDelete#Sometimes the more loyal you are, the more disappointment you encounter and experience*
ReplyDeleteIndia & their tradition..
ReplyDeleteNa wah.
Barbaric!
ReplyDeleteA whole family held a woman down for their son to chop off her nose! Indians are so wicked!!!
ReplyDeleteVery bad man, stupid constitution
ReplyDeleteWomen paying men dowry, hmm what a tradition
ReplyDeleteMtcheww. Only in India
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