Ayyub Mansuri (in picture) is the husband of the complainant.

AHMEDABAD: Her doctor says he has not read such a case even in medical textbook where a woman’s tongue is pulled out and chopped off with a knife.

Meanwhile, the woman is reeling under the after-effects of the horrifying assault where her husband, Ayyub Mansuri , had chopped off her tongue while pretending to want to kiss her.

“I am not able to eat normally and cannot chew my food. My family crushes the food in a mixer and feeds me,” the victim told TOI.

The woman who works as a nurse has returned to her maternal home and is being cared for by her brother and his wife after the merciless assault.

Doctors said that the husband had cut off nearly 40% of the tongue due to which her speech has been affected too.

One needs to listen extremely carefully to her to understand her speech.

“While we routinely treat patients of tongue cancer, this is the first case of man-induced tongue trauma we are treating. We have not read such a case in the textbooks too,” said Dr Shailendra Singh, treating plastic surgeon at VS Hospital .

Dr Singh said that that three months later, they will make a tongue using a skin flap from the forearm or thigh.

“We will perform microsurgery and make nerve connections too. Once she gets the bulk of the tongue back, she will be able to push her food back, which is the main task of the tongue. Her speech will also improve,” said Dr Singh.

The woman told TOI that it was her second marriage. While they used to fight, her husband struck her when she was least expecting. “On that day, all was peaceful. We had a cake together and then I lied down. He told me he wanted to kiss me. We kissed and he suddenly pulled my tongue out and cut it,” the woman said.

She said that she was shocked by the horror inflicted on her and would never return to her tormentor.

