LARKANA, Dec 12: A woman with multiple injuries to her nose, nape of the neck, chin and right hand was brought to the Chandka Medical College Hospital's emergency unit on Saturday.

The woman, Suhnee, mother of three, was later admitted in the neurosurgery unit.

According to her father-in-law Abdul Qadir and mother-in-law Sakeena, her husband Basheer Magsi, a farmer, had inflicted on her the wounds with a sharp object at their house in Ali Nawaz Magsi village near Qubo Saeed Khan, Qambar-Shahdadkot district.

ENT specialist Dr Hassan Shaikh said that the patient was stable but injury at the nape of her neck was deep.

Abdul Qadir and Sakeena told journalists that their son Basheer was a lunatic and he had been under treatment for past six months. They said that they were among the flood-affected people.

Dr Darshan, on whose agriculture farm the family of Suhnee worked and who accompanied the patient, confirmed about Basheer's ailment and said that he had been under treatment by psychiatrists, including Dr Inayat Magsi.

Dr Magsi said that Basheer had a history of multiple drug use and psychosis. His mental illness further aggravated during recent floods when his family was in a state of helplessness, both socially and economically, he said. They, therefore, could not afford to continue his treatment, he said.

The Qubo Saeed Khan police on behalf of state have registered an FIR against Basheer as no one from his wife's family turned up to lodge the FIR.

The accused is absconding and police are clueless about his whereabouts.

Abdulah Kamboh, private secretary of Sindh Food Minister Nadir Ali Magsi, visited the woman at the hospital and gave her Rs50,000 on behalf of the minister.

Zakiya Khokhar, the in-charge of Women Compliant Cell, Larkana, and local PPP leader Husna Abro on the directive of Sindh Minister for Women Development Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto visited Suhnee and presented a bouquet to her.