Bangladesh woman cuts off husband's penis

[SplitDik (imported)]

then goes on to kill him. I like how the article positions it as "fighting polygamy"

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Fighting ... 17629.html

» 02/15/2010 14:11

BANGLADESH

Fighting polygamy: woman castrates husband, and then kills him

by William Gomes

With a kitchen knife, the woman cuts off her husband’s penis, then stabs him to death. His physical abuse and his decision to take a new wife drove her to such action. Polygamy is legal in Bangladesh but is a rapidly waning social practice. Only 10 per cent of men have more than one wife.

Dhaka (AsiaNews) – Her husband’s extreme physical abuse and his decision to take a fourth wife drove a woman in Bangladesh to cut off his penis with a kitchen knife and then repeatedly stabbed him to death. The incident occurred last 10 February in the village of Bogra, Gazipur District (Dhaka Division). The woman is currently being held on murder charges.

Chad Sultana, 28 (pictured), and her husband Mohammed Nazrul Islam, 45, are the main actors in this drama. He had two more wives and was planning to take a fourth one in accordance with Islamic law, even if the practice is not widespread in Bangladesh.

The couple lived in a flat. The owner of the building where the couple lived, Halim, spoke to AsiaNews about the tragedy.

“On 10 February around 3 pm, the woman cut off his penis to avenge a life of misery he had forced upon her,” he said. “She then stabbed him to death. She used a bothi, a sharp cooking knife.”

Chad Sultana was Mohammed Nazrul Islam’s third wife. She grew tired of his unfaithfulness and was opposed to his decision to marry a fourth time. The two often quarrelled and he mistreated and beat her on several occasions. He would often bate her, saying that “it was legal to marry up to four times under Islam” and that she had no right to oppose his plans.

The landlord said that the couple had a 13-year-old daughter, Mim. “Now that her father is dead and her mother is in prison, she could become destitute.”

Joydevpur police chief said that Chad Sultana is being held on charges of first-degree murder.

Polygamy is legal in Bangladesh, but is a rapidly waning social practice. It touches only 10 per cent of all adult males, much less than in other countries where it is legal.

In some cities, hefty taxes have been imposed on polygamy, with the tax increasing for each new wife a man takes.

[Batman (imported)]

Maybe it is just me, but what about his other two wives? Were there other children, they wouldn't take the orphan in with them?

Guess it isn't like Big Love on HBO

[Hash (imported)]

This story has some holes in it. How in the world was she able to cut off his penis without him trying to stop her? Was he drunk? Sleeping? Passed out? You just don't let a woman cut off your penis, do you? Well, some of us would, but even if he was drunk, how fast can you cut off a man's penis? Doesn't it start to get hard almost immediately and if it does, then blood has to start shooting out all over the place. Unless the knife is razor sharp, which I suspect it was, then perhaps you can slice off a penis with one or two quick cuts. I don't know, but I want to know what it feels like to have your penis cut off, of course, he'll never be able to tell us.

[DeaconBlues (imported)]

Ditto Batman and Hash on this story, it has a LOT of holes in it... Like the robot always says "Does not compute."

I sorta think the woman was framed, or maybe the whole story was staged and none of the events happened at all.

The whole thing just "does not compute." If the guy had two other wives, they would most probably have been somehow aware of this going on... Yet they did nothing to stop it?

[transward (imported)]

Although all of us have of course seen enough CSI shows that we would know immediatly, but in a third world country, minus a first world forensic pathologist, it might not be obvious whether emasculation took place before or after killing him, so that point wouldnt count for much.

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