30 year old Rohit Chaurasiya chopped off the hand of a teenage girl with a sword in a busy marketplace in what police believe was a dispute over a phone charger. UK Independent reported that Mr Chaurasiya is accused of violently attacking the girl, severing her right hand from the wrist with the weapon.
According to reports, the 30 year old will be facing three charges as levied against him following his violent attack on the girl. ‘Chaurasiya was charged with attempted murder, assaulting a woman with intent to outrage her modesty and voluntarily causing grievous bodily harm with a dangerous weapon,’ UK Independent Post reported.
As it is expected from the indiscriminate act, ‘the girl suffered from significant blood loss but after 11-hour surgery her hand was reattached by plastic surgeons at the King George Medical University hospital in Lucknow, and remains under observation in hospital,’ while she regains strength.
Witnesses and bypassers, according to the press, stopped the attacker from fleeing the scene and handed him to the police. Also, it is revealed that Mr Chaurasiya was the girl’s neighbour and that she had borrowed a mobile phone charge belonging to his brother. It is however claimed that he became enraged when she refused to return it.
Police, according to the UK Independence, said the apparent dispute over the phone charger was considered as one possible motive but the exact cause of the attack could not yet be confirmed and that other theories were being investigated.
Neighbours however told the press that the young girl was living in very poor conditions in a rented room with her blind mother, ailing father, two elder brothers and a young sister. It is against this background that ‘the district magistrate said aid and shelter will be provided to the girl’s family following the attack’.
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