Law Kumar Mishra
Patna, December 4
In a horrific incident in the Pirpainti Market in Bhagalpur district, 300 kms east from here, a woman was attacked with sharp weapons and different parts of her body were chopped off assailants from a different community.
The victim woman died in the Jawaharlal Nehru Government Hospital at Bhagalpur. In her dying declaration, victim Neelam Devi alleged the assailants had been chasing her when she was going to her house from the market. Mohammaf Shakil, attacked her on head, back and his four other accomplices chopped her both hands, breasts, gouged eyes and other parts of limbs.
Her husband Ashok Yadav said he had opposed frequent visits of Shakil to his house and this was not liked by him. He had been harassing her at Chhoti Dolori area . He said the criminals chopped off even legs of his wife.
Rajkumar Prasad,station house officer of Pirpainti police station told this correspondent over phone that one person has been arrested, others are absconding.’Prasad said the doctors at the Referral Hospital confirmed her body was chopped at several points, including both ears, both breasts, legs and arms.
Police have recovered a Gamcha and Chappal of one of the accused from the site of incident.
Following the incident,members of Hindu Mahasabha assembled at the market and demanded arrest of the criminals.
Following tension between the two communities, security was strengthened in the market.
