Alcoholic sews wife's lips
2005-11-25 08:27
New Delhi - Fed up with his wife's demands that he give up drinking, an alcoholic in India's eastern Jharkhand state sewed her lips together, it was reported on Thursday.
According to the IANS news agency, Savitri Devi had asked her husband repeatedly to quit drinking because it left them very little to feed their four children at their home in West Singbhum district.
"Whenever I requested him not to drink, he threatened to sew my mouth," she was quoted by the news agency as saying.
Some 10 days ago, the couple got into a spat again after the man returned home drunk.
The inebriated man attacked his wife and sewed her lips together with a needle and thread. He then escaped to a nearby village.
Neighbours took Savitri to a hospital where she was treated. The woman has however refused to file a complaint to the police about her husband's behaviour, the news agency said.
- SAPA