Little Radha can't be fed normally
and may not be able to speak properly unless she undergoes extensive
plastic surgery - because her nose and upper lip have been bitten off.
The
man who did this to the five-month-old was her own father, Bhadar
Singh, a farm labourer in Siyana village of the Bikaner district in
Rajasthan.
The father chewed off his daughter's lips and nose because he was angered by her crying.
He
has been arrested and booked under various sections of the Indian penal
code (IPC) for causing grievous hurt with dangerous means, which
provide for a sentence ranging from 10 years in jail up to life
imprisonment.
According
to the police, Bhadar, 36, came home drunk on Thursday around 10pm when
his wife Santosh and his sister Saroj were applying mehendi (henna) to
their hands.
He asked
his wife to do some work. Showing him her hands, she said she wasn't
able to, at which Bhadar started abusing and beating her.
When Saroj protested, he warned her against intervening.
But seeing her mother being assaulted, their elder daughter, three-year old Bhanwar Kanwar, started crying.
This
angered the drunken Bhadar, who duly turned his fury on Bhanwar. He is
accused of biting the toddler on her back, hands and other body parts
before throwing her on the ground.
Baby
Radha was asleep in another room, but was woken up by her sister's
screams and began crying. Her father then started biting his younger
child.
Horrified, his
wife and sister ran out to raise the alarm. The neighbours then rushed
in and grabbed Bhadar, who was handed over to the police on Friday
morning.
Radha and Bhanwar were taken to the government-run Prince Bijay Singh Memorial (PBSM) Hospital in Bikaner.
Dr
Girish Prabhakar, head of the paediatric surgery department of the
hospital, said that although Radha was out of danger, she would have to
undergo extensive, drastic plastic surgery.
"We are treating her, but to look normal she would require plastic surgery, which can be done only in Jaipur," he added.
Radha,
accompanied by her mother Santosh and a few volunteers, was sent to
Jaipur's Sawai Man Singh Hospital in an ambulance on Friday.
But Santosh returned to PBSM and couldn't give explain why she had brought her daughter back, Dr Prabhakar said.
He
said the Bikaner hospital authorities would try to coordinate with the
Jaipur doctors to ensure proper treatment for the baby.
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