girl chopped off her tongue to get 'choice' match

A 19-year-old girl chopped off her tongue inside a Shiva temple and offered it to the god at Jhar village in Bargarh. She did so to invoke the god's blessings to marry the person she desired instead of the match fixed by her parents. She narrated her story when the temple priest found her lying in the temple with blood on her face on Tuesday morning.

Sources said, the victim Renubala, daughter of Birabahu Naik of Khapanpali had gone to the Shiva temple of Jhar during late night to invoke the blessing of the god. She chopped off her tongue with a blade to offer it to lord Shiva. The temple priest was the first to discover her lying in a shocking condition inside the temple. Victim divulged her story when the priest enquired her condition.

"I was shocked to see her lying on the temple floor in the morning. She was bleeding from her face. She had chopped her tongue off with a blade and offered it to the god," priest of the temple Basudev Mohapatra told TOI.

Villagers rushed to the temple when the news spread. They tried to take her to the hospital but she refused. "We tried to take her to the nearby hospital but she refused to go anywhere," villager Narayan Meher said.

Even the police rushed to the spot and persuaded her to take her to hospital. But Police became powerless before her farm-faith on God. “Police went back after she declared stay inside the temple for a total 21 days’, another villager said.

Sources said the girl was against her marriage schedules in December because the groom was quite older to her. She was interested to marry a younger one. So she did this with a belief that she would get her choice match if she could please the God by offering her tongue.