Crowds in a busy market fled in terror as a woman walked among them holding aloft the severed head of a man who had attacked her.

Covered in blood, she held the head high like a trophy, said police - her way of showing that she had delivered her own kind of justice to her attacker.

The gruesome scene was played out in Makkapurva village, 170 miles south east of the Indian city of Lucknow, where, last night, the woman was being held behind bars.

According to police officer Ram Bharose, the unnamed 35-year-old woman had sliced off the man's head with a sickle she had been using to cut grass near her village.

'She was getting grass for her cattle when the man came up from behind her and tried to sexually assault her,' said Mr Bharose.
'In a bid to save her dignity, she turned on him and during a struggle managed to chop off his head with the sickle.

'We have no doubts about her story because she had bite marks on her neck and cheek when the man tried to take advantage of her sexually.'

So determined was the woman to show that she had beaten off her attacker, who she claimed had been stalking her for three months, that she decided to take his head immediately to the local market.
'She put the head on parade,' said Mr Bharose. 'She walked right through all the crowds who were buying their vegetables, holding the head up high.

'All her clothes were covered in blood, but as far as she was concerned that didn't matter. She just wanted to make a point and she definitely succeeded in doing that.

'Everybody scattered. It was a very terrifying sight.' Mr Bharose said the woman had no regrets about her actions.

'We have to follow the letter of the law and although she says she acted in self defence she will probably be charged with culpable homicide,' said the police officer.

I wanna cut someone's head off.

Quite frankly you all disappoint me with your applause for this outrageous act. I don't care if he tried to rape her or not, she shouldn't have paraded a severed head through that marketplace. Food is sold there, so who knows what contamination could've occurred. Not to mention potential slip hazards with the blood. I mean did she consider this or perform a risk assessment of any kind before her selfish act?

Quite frankly you all disappoint me with your applause for this outrageous act. I don't care if he tried to rape her or not, she shouldn't have paraded a severed head through that marketplace. Food is sold there, so who knows what contamination could've occurred. Not to mention potential slip hazards with the blood. I mean did she consider this or perform a risk assessment of any kind before her selfish act?

Got him! And lol at the Mortal Kombat screenshot.

mcmeekle said:

Personally, I was horrified. It is one thing to fight off an attacker- even wound him with the machete. It is an entirely different matter to completely separate his head from his body!
Maybe she was in shock when she stumbled into town with it, but

I'm torn with this....on the one hand, I'm glad that she stood her ground and fought him off...the fact that he lost his head is collateral damage in my mind...

...however, on the other hand, I'm a bit amazed that folks are cheering the fact that she cut his head off and paraded it down mainstreet.... I shudder to think of the responses(as a man) if this story had been about some guy who caught his wife cheating and lopped her head off and paraded it down mainstreet...

I don't know how I should feel... hold me

reneGade20 said:

That is not an even comparison, it would be if a man was going to be attacke, raped, murdered and fought back by killing the male or female attacker

As far as parading the head around men while they do get attacked simply arn't raped in the numbers women are and I think it's heroic for her to show the world what she did

Quite frankly you all disappoint me with your applause for this outrageous act. I don't care if he tried to rape her or not, she shouldn't have paraded a severed head through that marketplace. Food is sold there, so who knows what contamination could've occurred. Not to mention potential slip hazards with the blood. I mean did she consider this or perform a risk assessment of any kind before her selfish act?

ThirdandFinal said:

See, thats what I have an issue with...it appears that it doesn't happen to men more often because men don't REPORT it as much as it happens...and my point isn't to compare on a statistical basis....the first part of my post clearly states that I, too, am glad that she fought him off, head be gone or not...but at the same time, if (as in my example) had lopped off his wife/girlfriends head, the outcry about violence against women would be deafening...he wouldn't be lauded or held up as some kind of hero

and while we're on that point, "hero" is quickly becoming one of my least favorite words...because it is severely overused and misapplied....in this case, IMHO (emphasis on M) "heroic" would've been her lopping off the guy's head if he was attacking a classroom full of schoolgirls....THAT is heroic...

mcmeekle said:

Personally, I was horrified. It is one thing to fight off an attacker- even wound him with the machete. It is an entirely different matter to completely separate his head from his body!
Maybe she was in shock when she stumbled into town with it, but

reneGade20 said:

Is the wife/girlfriend trying to overpower and rape or murder the man in your comparison?

The woman in india beheaded the man to save herself.....she marched it thru the market to save other women, that is what makes her heroic to me

I'm torn with this....on the one hand, I'm glad that she stood her ground and fought him off...the fact that he lost his head is collateral damage in my mind...

...however, on the other hand, I'm a bit amazed that folks are cheering the fact that she cut his head off and paraded it down mainstreet.... I shudder to think of the responses(as a man) if this story had been about some guy who caught his wife cheating and lopped her head off and paraded it down mainstreet...

I don't know how I should feel... hold me

reneGade20 said:

I can't believe you just compared a wife cheating on her husband to a man attacking and trying to rape a woman. Disgusting. Why did you use that as an example? I think it says alot about your views. The appropriate comparison is a woman trying to attack and harm a man and in that case people would applaud him too. Of course the repsonses would be outrage if a man cut the head off a wife that cheated.

Arnotts said:

I did not compare the acts of rape/cheating...I was talking more to the heads being cut off...if you read my post completely instead of picking out a sentence and turning into a comparison, then you'd see what I'm saying....personally, I think its disgusting that you take a statement and make a complete assessment of my views or anything that I might feel about anything...what do you know about my life or anything other than words on a Prince fan site? Would you be able to figure out that I had a cousin who was raped, beaten and murdered? Or maybe that more than one of my friends suffered through a sexual assault? Of course not...but then, who am I to question your character judging capabilities?

If you want to slam my opinion on this thread, by all means, do so...but don't presume to attack my character or my views when you wouldn't know me anymore than you'd know the Dali Lama....

oh...my bad...now you'll think that I compared myself to the Dali Lama....

So all that and you didnt explain why you used that as the example. And of course it was a comparison. Why else would you say you're amazed at people cheering this and then go on to say you'd hate to see the reactions of another situation which involves a cheating wife. Meaning you think it's a double standard which would imply the scenario's are equal. Thats a comparison. Otherwise the reactions of the cheating wife scenario wouldn't matter because it's an entirely different situation. Oh and bringing up friends and family that have been abused doesnt mean you cant possibly have certain veiws.