Apr. 12
JAMMU: A jobless Indian devotee was admitted to hospital after he cut off his tongue and offered it to a Hindu goddes.
Doctors stitched the wound but said the man may not be able to speak again.
The incident took place when Kumar visited a temple dedicated to Hindu goddess Kali on the outskirts of Jammu, the winter capital of Indian Kashmir.
Inside the temple, he cut his tongue off with a knife and gave it to the priest to offer it to the deity. He was immediately rushed to hospital.
"I am a true disciple of the goddess and it is my firm belief which has given me the strength to offer my tongue to her," he wrote on a piece of paper when reporters visited him in hospital
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