Patna: Angry robbers chopped off the fingers of a man in Bihar on Sunday after failing to steal any jewellery or valuables from him.
The victim, Kapil Kumar, works as a professor in a private college and his wedding was to be solemnised on June 3. The incident took place in Gaya district of Bihar on Sunday night.
As per reports, Kumar was returning home at night on his bike after distributing invitation cards among his relatives and friends for his marriage when the robbers waylaid him at a secluded place and searched him extensively hoping to lay their hands on gold and money.
Reports said after failing to get anything from him, the robbers attacked him with a sharp-edged weapon and chopped off his fingers from his left hand. Hearing his cries, the villagers rushed to the spot and admitted him to a local hospital. His condition is still stated to be critical.
“The attackers as me, ‘Where is the money you got as dowry? If you are not carrying right now, just part with your gold rings which you may have got as dowry’,” Kumar told police. “When they failed to get anything from me even after extensive searches of my pockets, they thrashed me badly and chopped off four fingers from my left hand,” he added.
The victim has registered a case with the Bodh Gaya police station. The incident comes barely five days before his marriage was to be solemnised. It is not however known if the wedding has been deferred.
Last month, criminals had shot dead a groom at the wedding venue just when he had exchanged garlands with his bride and was returning to his car. A police investigation later found that he was shot dead by his bride’s ex-boyfriend. Police have arrested the accused and sent him to jail. The incident took place in central Bihar’s Bhojpur district. In another incident reported from the same district on Saturday, a groom fled the marriage venue and took shelter in a poultry farm when some masked men attacked the guests and thrashed them severely. Several relatives of groom were injured in the attack. It was after much effort that the wedding could be solemnised finally.
