AHMEDABAD: A 36-year-old woman from the Juhapura area of the city on Thursday filed a complaint with Vejalpur police, stating that her husband cut off her tongue after first kissing her, late on Wednesday night.The woman was rushed to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (SVP) hospital where her tongue was surgically reattached.The complainant, a nurse at a private hospital, told Vejalpur police that had married a Dariapur-based man in 2004 but divorced him after five years.On March 24, 2018, she married the Juhapura-based man, who had been married twice, and still had one marriage in subsistence.She found out after the wedding that her husband was still living with his second wife and his son.She objected to this, due to which her husband tortured her often, she stated in the FIR.“As I used to ask him to get a job or start a business, he would get angry at me and thrash me. As I want to save my marriage, I kept tolerating his abuse,” the woman stated.She said that her husband last week thrashed her when she refused to give him money. However, they later reconciled.“On Wednesday night at around 11pm, when we were lying on one bed, my husband smiled at me and told that he wanted to kiss me on my tongue.I stuck out my tongue and as soon as I did, he first bit my tongue and held it and then cut it off with a knife he had hidden from me,” stated the complainant, who was unable to speak.The accused then locked the house from outside and fled.The woman made a video call to her sister and showed her her condition. Her sister rushed to the place, got another key from the neighbour and took the victim to SVP Hospital.Inspector L D Odedara of Vejalpur police said that the accused, charged with causing hurt with a dangerous weapon and domestic violence , was on the run.Read this story in Bengali