UNB, Sylhet :
A man who severed his wife’s tongue and a tendon of her left leg in Sadar upazila on December 15 surrendered before a court here on Monday. Belal Miah, a resident of Lamuya village in South Surma upazila, turned up before the Metropolitan Magistrate Court in the morning, said officer-in-charge of Jalalabad Police Station Akhter Hossain. Later, police sought a 10-day remand for him.
On December 15, Belal along with his two associates went to the house of his father-in-law at Darsha village in Sadar upazila where his wife Suma Begum had been staying for the last one year. Later, he took her to a storeroom where firewood was kept, cut off her tongue and a tendon of her left leg. He also stabbed her indiscriminately before fleeing along with the cohorts.
Critically injured Suma was admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital.
