Police crack down on eunuchs in Punjab after reports of mutilations

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Police crack down on eunuchs in Punjab after reports of mutilations

Chandigarh, May 14 (IANS) :

Punjab Police have decided to crack down on eunuchs after shocking reports that genitals of men were being cut off to turn them into eunuchs.

State police chief A.A. Siddiqui said Friday that brutal and inhuman incidents to turn men into eunuchs by chopping off their genitals and then selling them for begging have come to the notice of the authorities.

Two such incidents were reported in Punjab's Nawanshahr and Jalandhar districts and one in Haryana's Hisar area, Siddiqui said, noting that many incidents might have gone unreported.

The police chief said he had ordered a screening of all eunuch groups in Punjab to detect cases of forced conversion of men into eunuchs by employing this gruesome and fatal method.

Unclaimed bodies recovered by police in different parts of the state and investigations revealed that the victims had died due to excessive bleeding after their genitals were dismembered, said Siddiqui.

Those who survived after their genitals were cut off, informed police that they were administered female hormones for growth of breasts to make them look like women.

They told officials that sedatives were administered to them before their genitals were removed.

Siddiqui said in a few cases, the victims and their families had committed suicide due to shame.