A man gouged out his wife’s eye at Arichpur in Gazipur on Thursday evening.
The victim, Sheuly, 25, was hospitalised while her husband Kamal Hossain, an oil trader at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport area, absconded after the attack.
“The couple got into an altercation in the and Kamal at one point tied his wife’s hands and taped her mouth. He then stabbed her right eye with a knife, almost completely gouging it out, and also repeatedly hit her in the left eye and the mouth,” said Inspector Aminul Islam of Tongi Model police station.
“Kamal locked their flat from outside and fled when Sheuly screamed for help. The neighbours rescued her and took her to Tongi Government Hospital,” said Inspector Aminul.
Nusrat Jahan, a doctor at the hospital, said Sheuly had already suffered major injuries in her right eye when she was brought to the hospital at night.