Would-Be Rapist Loses His Head

Sometimes No just means No. This is what a man who had been stalking a woman for three months had to find out the hard way.....by literally losing his head. This incident occurred in Makkapurva village, 170 miles south east of the Indian city of Lucknow.

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A 35-year-old Indian woman had been refusing the unwanted advances of an unnamed man for three months when he found her alone in the field cutting grass, with a sickle, to feed her cows. Police officer Ram Bharose describes what happened next:

'She was getting grass for her cattle when the man came up from behind her and tried to sexually assault her,' said Mr Bharose. 'In a bid to save her dignity, she turned on him and during a struggle managed to chop off his head with the sickle. ' He continued 'We have no doubts about her story because she had bite marks on her neck and cheek when the man tried to take advantage of her sexually.'

Having decapitated the unfortunate man, the woman decided to take his head to the local market in the village. She was determined to show the others how she had successfully defended herself against the man who had been stalking her for three months.

'She put the head on parade,' said Mr Bharose. 'She walked right through all the crowds who were buying their vegetables, holding the head up high.

'All her clothes were covered in blood, but as far as she was concerned that didn't matter. She just wanted to make a point and she definitely succeeded in doing that.

'Everybody scattered. It was a very terrifying sight.' Mr Bharose said the woman had no regrets about her actions.

The crowd in the busy market fled in terror as a woman walked among them holding aloft the severed head of a man who had attacked her. Covered in blood, she held the head high like a trophy, her way of showing that she had delivered her own kind of justice to her attacker. She was promptly arrested.

'We have to follow the letter of the law and although she says she acted in self defense she will probably be charged with culpable homicide,' said police officer Ram Bharose.

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