UP: Youth’s genitals chopped off over ‘love affair’ in Unnao

KANPUR: In a bizarre incident, unidentified miscreants chopped off the genitals of a 20-year-old youth in sleep in Gauri Majre Para village in Maurawan police area of Unnao district during the wee hours of Sunday.
The youth's screams alerted the family members and neighbours who rushed to the spot only to find him writhing in pain and his private parts missing with blood splattered all around.They immediately alerted the police control room.
Subsequently, a team from Maurawan police station arrived at the spot and rushed the profusely bleeding youth to a nearby hospital, from where doctors referred him to the Trauma Centre in Lucknow in a critical state.
The incident took place while Suraj, son of Kamlesh Pal, a resident of Gauri Majre Para village of Mauravan police station area, was sleeping in the verandah of his house.
During the early hours of Sunday, unidentified men first attacked him with a blunt object and then cut off his genitals and then fled from the spot.
Hearing the loud screams, his mother Pushpa came out of the house, and clashed with one of the attackers, but they fled taking advantage of the darkness.
Station house officer Maurawan Ajay Kumar Sharma reached the spot along with a dog squad and forensic experts and launched an investigation.
The injured youth, who has been admitted to a nearby hospital, was referred to the Trauma Centre in Lucknow by the doctors after his condition deteriorated, the SHO said.
The villagers told the investigators that the incident was the fallout of some kind of `love-affair'.
The SHO said, "We have started an investigation to ascertain the possible motive with regard to the gruesome attack on the youth. The dog squad and the forensic team have been called to trace the attackers. The condition of the youth is said to be critical”.