A 32-year-old woman walked into a police station in Madhya Pradesh's Sidhi district on yesterday, carrying the dismembered genital of her brother-in-law.

A mother of three, the woman alleged her brother-in-law had been raping her for days, and so, she had hacked off his privates with a sickle in order to stop him.

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When the police sent medical support to the man, he was found hanging from a tree near his house, having committed suicide. The woman recounted she had been living with her relative while her husband worked in Nashik, Maharashtra, which is about 700 miles away.

She said her brother-in-law had been raping her for days, and as he "forced himself" on her that day, she severed her genital with a sickle and brought it to the police as a piece of evidence.

The woman, who had come to the police station with her children, has been booked for attempt to murder. "This is a rare case and has to be investigated for a proper chargesheet," Sidhi SP Abid Khan told The Times of India .

The police added the woman was found to be mentally stable, with no regrets about what she had done.