Apr 12, 2012: Alcoholic husband stabs woman constable

TNN | Apr 12, 2012, 04.12AM IST

BHOPAL: Despite being a police woman, she could not escape domestic violence. In a sensational incident, a 28-year-old lady police constable was stabbed by her alcoholic husband inside a police station on Wednesday afternoon. Sapna Shravankar, a constable posted at the Chicholi police station in Betul district was on duty and working when her intoxicated husband, identified as Manish Singh Thakur, barged in and stabbed her in the stomach at 3 pm on Wednesday.

Stunned cops at the Chicholi police station watched their woman colleague attacked right before their eyes. Sapna fell on the ground with blood oozing from her abdomen. Her colleagues immediately nabbed the drunken husband and arrested him there at the spot. The injured woman constable was rushed to the local hospital and was later shifted to the district hospital in Betul town.

Giving her statement, Sapna recounted the frequent domestic violence she faced in her residence. According to her statement, she married Manish Singh Thakur five years ago. Before the marriage, she told him that since her parents had no son, she would have to take care of them and would, therefore, have to live in her father's house in Betul. At that time, Manish Singh agreed to stay with her in Betul. But as the years passed, he wanted her to take a transfer to his hometown in Rewa.

In addition to this, he was a habitual drinker. There were frequent altercations between the husband and wife over his addiction to alcohol. The altercations would often see Sapna become the victim of her husband's violent behaviour. Wednesday morning, there was a similar altercation over transfer to Rewa followed by an argument about Manish Singh Thakur's dependence on alcohol.

But as usual, Sapna went to work in the afternoon. She was sitting at her desk inside the Chicholi police station when her husband appeared in an inebriated state armed with a knife. Abusing and calling her name, he rushed towards the woman constable and stabbed her. Sapna is undergoing treatment at the Betul district hospital. The police registered a case against her husband under sections 307 (attempt to murder) and 294 (obscenity) of the IPC.
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