Man rips open wife’s belly to ascertain foetus gender, arrested

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Man rips open wife’s belly to ascertain foetus gender, arrested

Tuesday, 22 September 2020 | PNS | Lucknow

In a horrendous incident, a man ripped open his pregnant wife’s belly to ascertain the gender of the foetus in Budaun on Sunday.

After a preliminary investigation, the police said that the man, a father of five girls, wanted a son.

As per reports, daily wager Pannalal returned to his Nekpur locality home in Civil Line police station area late Sunday evening. An inebriated Pannalal soon got into an argument with his wife and slit open her belly with a sharp-edged weapon to find out the gender of the foetus.

While the foetus was untimely terminated, the seriously injured woman was rushed to district hospital by her neighbours. She was later referred to a Bareilly hospital in a serious condition.

The police were trying to determine the motive of the crime. An FIR was registered and the man was arrested.

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