Bengal: Man chops off wife’s hand after she gets govt job as a nurse

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The accused is on the run while the victim is undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit of a private hospital in Durgapur city, officials said.

A 26-year-old man allegedly chopped off his wife’s hand in West Bengal’s East Burdwan district after she secured a job as a nurse at a government hospital as he feared she would be posted in some other city, officials said on Monday.

The man, Sher Md Sheikh, is absconding and the 24-year-old victim, Renu Khatun, is undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit of a private hospital in Durgapur city, the officials said.

According to officials, Khatun married Sheikh, who runs a grocery store at Kojalsa village in Ketugram area of the district, in October 2017.

In 2018, Khatun enrolled herself in a nursing course, and got a job at a private nursing home in Durgapur in West Burdwan, the officials said. Later, the officials said, she applied for a government job against Sheikh’s wishes.

On May 28 this year, Khatun was empanelled for the government job, following which an argument broke out between the couple, officials said.

“Preliminary investigations have revealed that Sheikh did not want Khatun to take up the job fearing that she could be posted in a different city,” an official at Ketugram police station, where the complaint was lodged, said. [Read More]