Bhopal: In a second such incident in month, a tribal woman cut the private part of the man trying to rape her using a kitchen knife in Umaria district of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday night.

The incident took place at Govarde village under Manpur police station of the district at 10 pm.

The accused Ramkaran Prajapati, 29, who had serious injury on his private part, was rushed to police station at 3 am and lodged a complaint against the woman.

But during the course of investigations by police, it emerged that the accused was trying to rape the woman when she executed the crime.

“We registered a case against the survivor on the complaint of Ramkaran Prajapati, but during the investigations it emerged that she did so while Ramkaran attempted to rape her, a case of attempt to rape was registered against Ramkaran Prajapati on Monday,” Manpur police station incharge, Shiv Shankar Mishra told TOI.

He added, “The accused Ramkaran is a distant relative of the survivor and he came to their house on February 28, and took the survivor and her husband to a local fair. On returning he requested the survivor’s husband to fetch liquor and when he went away, the accused attempted to rape the survivor. He even thrashed her badly, during the course of this, the survivor anyhow managed to get kitchen knife and chopped off his private part”.

The incident took place at 10 pm, but Ramkaran did not make any complaint at first, but as he was bleeding profusely, he had to approach doctors at hospitals, but doctors refused to treat without intimating to police, subsequently he reached Manpur police station and made a complaint that survivor and her husband chopped off his private part, but the actual facts came up during the course of investigations, Mishra said.

Ramkaran Prajapati, is undergoing treatment at a government hospital in Manpur.

Earlier, on February 11, a woman chopped off the genitals of her brother in law who tried to rape her, in Sidhi district and walked into the nearby police station with severed organ and alleged that the severing the organ was the only way to protect her.

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