Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, December 22 2010:
A Zilla Parishad member beat up his ailing 43-year-old wife undergoing chemotherapy treatment, and abandoned her in a merciless manner.
The hapless woman, Asem (O) Bidya alias Tombi Devi (43) of Wangoo Noudakhong of Bishnupur district is the second wife of Asem Brojen who is a member of the Bishnupur Zilla Parishad.
Briefing reporters at Manipur Press Club today, Bidya said that she has been staying at a rented house for the last eight months for her treatment.
She is a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy treatment at RIMS Hospital.
She had been administered chemotherapy treatment of five doses and each dose has cost her ' 25,000 to ' 45,000 and one of the doses cost ' 75,000.Out of the total costs, her husband contributed ' 50,000 and all other expenses were borned by her brothers.
When her husband failed to show up in the last few weeks and being unable to meet her medical expenditures, she went to meet him today, Bidya said adding that she met her husband at the Bishnupur DC's office where he had gone to attend a meeting.
When she met him, Brojen charged that he had come to see her on many occasions but she was never in the rented house.
When she asked for money to meet her medical expenses, he refused saying that he had no money.
After a heated argument a woman member of the Zilla Parishad Usharani alias Tombi scolded Bidya of confronting with her husband in a public place and started beating her up.
Bidya has said that instead of stopping the woman, Brojen joined in to kick her in the chest twisting her hands.
In the assault she received fractures in her right thumb and small finger and that other women members of the Parishad resorted to using harsh language on her.
As she lay in torment her husband and the women Parishad members left the place in a car.
Bidya said she was picked up by some pedestrians who took her in an auto-rickshaw for hospitalisation.