GETTY - GOOGLE The man was rushed to hospital to have his penis reattached

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When her 31-year-old taxi driver husband Ved Prakash arrived home from his night shift on Thursday morning, he headed straight home and into the shower. But as he stepped out the cubicle, his wife Rita Yadav hit him over the head with a stone grinder - knocking him to the floor. And after grabbing a kitchen knife, she slashed at his penis while shouting “I will not spare you” before locking him inside the bathroom. She later handed herself in at the police station, leaving her husband home alone to regain consciousness before he was able to call for an ambulance.

Kumar Yadav, Indirapuram police officer, said: “She told the police that her husband mentally tortured her by not having a physical relationship with her and avoided having children with her. “Frustrated by this behaviour, she picked up a kitchen knife and attacked him when he came out of the bathroom.” The couple from Bulandshahr were married in June 2006, and had been living in Ghaziabad for the past eight years. But it seemed they had an unhappy marriage, as the housewife told police her husband often told her he hated her and was disgusted by her face.

GETTY The woman has been arrested

Police said the couple, who have no children, fought regularly and the husband had repeatedly asked his wife to leave. He also threatened to have extra-marital affairs, even though his wife would regularly beg for sex. The unnamed woman said: “He used boast about his manhood and told me that he can have children with other women but not me. “I still tolerated him. I don’t know the reason why he hates me. Often, he used to ask me to leave.

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“He used to assault me and often abused me and my sisters. “I have tried my level best to persuade him to have children but he had no physical relations with me. “We had fight over the same issue on Wednesday night.I have no regrets as I suffered a lot of humiliation and mental torture. “I had no answers when my relatives asked me the reason for not having children.

GOOGLE Jaypee Hospital said the man's penis has been surgically reattached

Doctors at the Jaypee Hospital confirmed the man’s penis had been severed, but was reattached following five-hours in surgery. But they were confident he would survive - however they could not confirm whether he would be able to reproduce after the surgery.

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