A woman from northern Uttar Pradesh, India, severed her husband’s genitals on Thursday after he refused to have physical relations with her, according to a report in the Hindustan Times The 34 year-old victim, who is a cab operator, was admitted to Jaypee Hospital in Noida where he remains in critical condition. The newspaper quotes Dr Saurabh Gupta at the hospital as saying that “the patient’s private parts had been cut off. We have performed the surgery. He is in a critical situation but we are hoping that he will survive. In such cases, the patient is able to reproduce after the surgery.”A case has been registered against the wife while she remains in police custody.According to circle officer Anil Kumar, the 30-year-old woman 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 his behaviour, she picked up a kitchen knife and attacked him when he came out of the bathroom.”“He used boast about his manhood and told me that he can have children with other women but not me,” the woman said in her statement to the police officials. “I still tolerated him. I don’t know the reason why he hates me. Often, he used to ask me to leave. We got married in June 2006. 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,” she added.“The doctors have performed a surgery on my brother. He had just come out of the bathroom when she attacked him. As my brother lay drenched in blood, she latched the room from outside and walked off. My brother called the police,” the brother of the victim told police. “Apart from the private part, she hurt him nowhere else. We have also informed her family members about the incident. My brother has also given his statements to the police.”