An Indian woman cut off a man’ s penis after he allegedly tried to rape her at her house in the southern state of Kerala , police said on Saturday.
The 23-year – old law student was at her residence in the state capital Thiruvananthapuram late Friday when she says she was attacked by the 54- year -old man, who had claimed to her family to be a religious guru.
“ She used a knife in her defense and cut off his penis, ” district police chief G Sparjan Kumar told AFP by phone .
“ The man , Hari Swami , was rushed to the nearby government hospital in a serious state, ” he added .
The local media reported that Swami was in a stable condition after undergoing emergency medical procedures at the local hospital .
The woman claimed the man had been assaulting her for several years, according to Kumar , who said police had registered a case against Swami for sexual offences against a minor and rape .
Police said the girl ’ s parents , who live at the same house, were unaware of the assaults by Swami .
“ The woman told us that her parents blindly trusted this Swami , and he used to get frequent invites to perform special ceremonies and stay over at their house, where he assaulted her , ” Kumar told AFP.
She is now under police protection and receiving trauma counselling .
There have been other recent incidents of sexual assault involving religious men in the southern Indian state.
Two nuns and a priest , accused of covering up the birth of a baby born to a teenage girl who was allegedly raped by another priest , were arrested in Kerala last month.
Last year , a priest was sentenced to 40 years in prison by a Kerala court for raping a 12-year – old girl in 2014.
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