chastity belt to prevent his wife from engaging in extramarital
affairs.
We learnt Sohanial Chouhan's brutality was exposed when his wife,
Sitabai whom he married at the age of 16 was rushed to the hospital
after attempting to commit suicide with rat poison.
While receiving treatment at the hospital to discharge the poison she
took, nurses were amazed to find a padlock in her vagina. According to
Mrs. Sitabai Chouhan, who had been married to Chouhan for 19 years, in
2008, Chouhan drugged her and locked her in a room late at night and
then proceeded to drill holes with a spiky instrument on either side
of her genitals in order to fit a lock to stop her from having sex
with other men while he is at work. Every morning before going to
work, Chouhan allegedly inserts a small lock into the hole and keep
the keys under his socks.
The Hospital immediately invited the police who tracked down Chouhan
and unlock the padlock after retrieving the key from him. Following
his arrest, he tried justifying his actions, claiming that he became
the custodian of his wife's vagina because, several women in his
family had "strayed" in the past and he did not want his wife to do
the same.
According to popular myth, the chastity belt was used as an
anti-temptation device during the Crusades. When the knight left for
the Holy Lands on the Crusades fighting the pop's war, his Lady would
wear a chastity belt to preserve her faithfulness to him. However,
there is no credible evidence that chastity belts existed before the
15th century and their main period of apparent use falls within the
Renaissance rather than the Medieval times.
The couple who resides in Indore, one of the biggest cities in the
state of Madhya Pradesh in India has five children. Though the city is
known for its architectural splendour and is home to many industries
and contributes immensely to the fast growing rate of India's economy,
it is just like every other place in India which was recently
classified by a survey carried out by TrustLaw, as the worst place to
be a woman.