Delhi: Man bites-off and swallows another's ear after random fight
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A sudden argument resulted in bloody and bizarre scenes in Delhi's Sultanpuri yesterday, when a drunken man bit off another's ear in a fit of rage.
He then went on to swallow it!
Locals rushed the victim, Jitender Kumar, to hospital immediately; he is stable now.
The suspects, Deepak and Santosh, have also been nabbed.
The fight was as random as can be.
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What happened?
Jitender was taking a late-night stroll near his house around 1am Tuesday, when he saw two men, later identified as Deepak and Santosh, enter the area drunkenly.
They suddenly started hurling abuses at Jitender, who responded.
But then they started thrashing and punching him.
As he raised an alarm, "Deepak held him from behind and Santosh bit his ear," a police officer said.
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Jitender lost 3cm of cartilage
By the time police reached, Jitender had already been taken to a hospital.
Santosh had managed to bite off at least three centimetres of the cartilage before he swallowed the piece.
Probe has revealed there was no personal enmity, and the fight broke out simply in a fit of drunken rage.
A case has since been registered for voluntarily causing hurt, among others.