Husband baths wife with acid for giving birth to only baby girls
A 25-year-old Indian woman, Farah Biwi has been hospitalised after her husband, Siraj Biwi, 32, poured acid on her.
Farah was said to have been bathed with acid while in her sleep, for giving birth to a baby girl.
The incident happened on International Women’s Day, after Farah gave birth to a baby girl in Moradabad, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Farah who has since been hospitalised, suffered severe burns on her face, hands and stomach, after the acid was threw over her.
Police are searching for the alleged attacker, and hoping to arrest him for voluntarily causing grievous harm.
However, Siraj was said to have attacked his wife of eight years because of her failure to produce a male child.
Farah said: “After the birth of the first girl only, my in-laws started to target me as if I deliberately delivered a baby girl.
“The harassment kept intensifying as time passed by. For the past year, things had become much worse.
“Under pressure from his family, my husband would ask me to get more money from my parents and give it to them.”
Farah added: “I was trying to live with the daily dose of torture, and thinking about the wellbeing of my daughters.
“If I part ways from the man, who would provide for my two daughters and myself?
“But I could never imagine that he would go to the extent of pouring acid on me.
“I won’t forgive him for this ever.”
