AHMEDABAD: While Amadvadis were busy flying and cutting kites on Uttarayan and vaasi-Uttarayan, on Sunday an angry ex-husband chomped off his wife's lips and beat her black and blue when she refused to compromise and come back to him.
Pushpa Dhantayan, 27, is admitted in VS Hospital for plastic surgery after her husband bit off a significant part of her lip and spat the flesh out on the road. "Pushpa has lost one third of her right upper and lower lip as well the corner of the mouth. We will have to reconstruct the lips so that she can eat and hold her saliva, which are the prime functions of the lips apart from adding to the aesthetics of the face", said head of plastic surgery at VS Dr Vijay Bhatia.
The surgery will be performed in the next two days. "Since Pushpa has been bitten by a human there are chances of bacterial infection. Hence we have put her on antibiotics before the surgery", Dr Bhatia said.
Pushpa's ill-luck with marriage has continued. Pushpa told TOI that she had first married eight years ago and was divorced after the birth of a son. She fended for her son by working as a domestic help. Five months ago, she met Jeetu Rajput, an auto-rickshaw driver and decided to marry him.
Just a month into the marriage, she realized that Rajput was a drunkard and a woman-beater. She divorced him in ten days and went back to her parents' home in Vasna. On Uttarayan, Jeetu came to meet her and asked her to come back to him. She refused saying that since they were divorced, there was no point in even having such a discussion.
"Jeetu came back drunk on Sunday. He clamped his hand over my mouth and shoved me into a ricksshaw. He then hit me and bit me on the back as well as the mouth. He has chewed off the right side of my lips. Doctors say I will have to remain admitted for a major surgery", Pushpa, who is able to speak, told TOI. She was accompanied by her son Hritik and her father Ashokwho supported her through the ordeal.
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