A Bengali woman was raped by her ex-boyfriend in the middle of the street in Kalur, Kochi. Sandhya, a beauty salon employee, was hacked. The woman suffered cuts to her left hand and exterior and was admitted to a nearby private hospital. The attack took place in Kalur Azad Road at around 11am. While Sandhya and her friend were walking, their ex-boyfriend Farooq, who arrived by bicycle, got into a verbal argument with them.
Then he tried to cut Sandhya with the machete he was holding. My friend stopped me, so I didn’t cut it at first. In the repeated attack, Sandhya was injured in her hand and outside. Farooq saw people running away and escaped on his bicycle. Police concluded that a dispute over a romantic relationship prompted the attack. Farooq and Sandhya had worked together for years.
The girl attacked by her ex-boyfriend
