Bardhaman: The West Bengal police on Tuesday arrested an elderly couple after their son allegedly fled after chopping off his wife's right wrist in a bid to prevent her from joining her new job of nursing in West Bengal's Bardhaman district, official sources said.
Wife Renu Khatun, 23, who was in her sleep on Monday night, was attacked by her husband Sariful Sheikh (26) alias Sher Mohammed, along with his two companions, using a machete to cut her right wrist off. The crime happened at Ketugram in East Bardhaman, police said.
After committing the crime the accused took his wife to the hospital and informed his in-laws, when the latter arrived they found Sariful Sheikh was not in the hospital.
The accused had hid the cut portion of the wrist at his house and took his wife to the hospital, police came to know during a probe.
Renu, who was rushed to a private hospital in Durgapur after two government hospitals referred her to Kolkata, was stable.
Police swung into action after a complaint was received by them from Azizul Haque, father of the girl.
“We have got a complaint from the father of the girl. All the accused persons, including the husband of the woman and his friends, are absconding. Raids are on to arrest them,” additional superintendent of police in East Burdwan Dhruba Das said.
Renu, from Chinispur of Ketugram from her childhood, completed her diploma course in General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) from RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. After that, she began working in a private hospital in Durgapur as a nurse to gather experience amid objections from her husband and in-laws.
The police came to know that the prime accused, who has a grocery store, and the in-laws were opposed to Renu’s decision of working and she was subjected to torture.
Recently she got a new nursing job in a government hospital and that she had communicated to her husband.
Police keeping in track to trace the fleeing husband and his companions, on Tuesday arrested the father and mother of the prime accused while they were running away in a bus at Ketugram. (UNI)
