A 35-year-old woman of Yakusari North, Black Bush Polder who reprimanded her son-in-law for beating her daughter ended up being brutally chopped on her face around 11:45 pm on Tuesday.
The woman, Kowsilla `Geeta’ Singh, who sustained a chop from her left ear to the corner of her mouth was rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital where she received almost 100 stitches. Stabroek News was told that the `barefaced’ attacker sat in the front seat of the bus the woman’s relatives had hired to take her to the hospital and then disembarked at Rose Hall. He is still on the run.
Singh was in severe pain when Stabroek News visited her at the hospital yesterday and was also worried about her condition as she kept crying and hoping that nothing was seriously wrong with her.
She said that the doctors had told her that depending on an x-ray they would decide if she would need surgery. She vowed that she would not allow the man: 27-year-old Khemraj Dingoor called `Videsh’ who had disfigured her face to get away with it.
She recalled that she received a call from her daughter, Nirvanie “Rupa” Dindial, 18, that Dingoor had beat her on her head and other parts of her body and she subsequently went over to the house to make peace between them.
She said her daughter had jumped through the window and hidden among some bushes before going to a neighbour’s house to borrow a phone to make the call.
The woman was about to cross the bridge over a trench to get to the couple’s house when she realized that Dingoor had ripped out the boards. She then had to walk around to the other street to access the house.
By then her daughter who also has a two-year-old son from a previous union had already returned home. Singh said she went into the house and sat in the hammock with her grandson and she and the man began arguing.
She told him to stop hitting her daughter on her head and the man got mad and replied that “you never give yuh daughter wrong” and threatened to kill them both and kill himself.
The next thing she knew he had whipped out the cutlass from under a chair and fired a chop towards her neck but she pulled away and the chop connected with her face instead.
He then fired the cutlass at Dindial but she started to scream and begged him to spare her. After he finished chopping Singh, he then blamed the teen for “causing him to do it”.
When Dindial got to the hospital she hugged her mother and started to cry as she remembered how the incident occurred. She told this newspaper that the man was very jealous of her and always accused her of cheating on him. She said he also broke three cell phones belonging to her earlier that day because he did not want her to talk to her relatives.
Singh’s mother, Rohini Singh, said that although they knew her daughter’s attacker was in the bus they did not put him out as they were afraid that he would become violent again.
She said though that the driver should have taken him to the police station instead of dropping him off at Rose Hall when he asked him to.