Bhopal: A 32-year-old drunk man axed his wife’s right hand and foot over suspicion of an extra-marital affair in Madhya Pradesh’s capital city on Tuesday night. He was about to chop her head when the police arrived.
The accused, Pritam Singh Sisodia, a resident of Hoshangabad, has been arrested and a case of attempt to murder has been registered against him, India Today reported.
Upon hearing Sangeeta’s call for help, the neighbours reached the house to find her in a pool of blood. As the cops arrived, she was rushed to the hospital, the report added.
Mahinder Singh Chouhan, the SHO of Nishatpura, where the violent incident of crime took place, was quoted as saying, “The accused used to stay with his minor son at the Paras colony house. His wife, Sangeeta, works as a supervisor in a factory in Indore and used to come to Bhopal on off days. She was in Bhopal on Tuesday and at around 11.30 pm, the accused entered his house in a drunken state and chopped off her right hand and right foot with an axe.”