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UP news: Jilted lover castrates boyfriend who wanted to break up and marry another woman; but why is it called 'bobbittised' ?

A Muzaffarnagar woman cut off the genitals of his long-term boyfriend inside a hotel room after he revealed he planned to marry another woman; here is re-narrating the Lorena Bobbitt story

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Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar witnessed a jilted lover castrating her long-term boyfriend inside a hotel room on Sunday. The youngster is undergoing treatment at the district hospital where his condition remains critical. 

According to reports, the man and woman hailed from a village under the Charthawal police station area in Muzaffarnagar district. They were together for over eight years but the man's family disapproved of the relationship. 

Recently, the young man's family found him another match and convinced him to break up with his girlfriend. The man decided to convince his partner to leave the relationship and summoned her to a hotel in the Civil Lines police station area of Muzaffarnagar.

The couple had a fight inside the hotel room as the youth tried to explain why they should part ways and the girl attacked him. In a fit of rage, she pulled out a knife and attacked him, news reports said, before chopping off his genitals.

It was Muzaffarnagar Police who arrived at the spot that rushed him to the hospital, news agency PTI said. Locals alerted the cops of the development after they heard the commotion from the hotel room, reports said. 

The woman has been detained for interrogation, Civil Lines police station SHO Ashutosh told the media.

What is 'bobbittising' and why is it named after Lorena Bobbitt?

Lorena Bobbitt, an Ecuadorian-American woman, made healdines in the last decade of the 20th century when she cut off the penis of her husband John Wayne Bobbitt with a kitchen knife as he slept on the night of June 23, 1993. She threw away the cut off gentilia of her husband through the window of her car as she drove after committing the act. According to the New York Times, she later told the police where she get rid of the body part, which ultimately led to  John undergoing a nine-and-a-half-hour feat of urological and plastic surgery  at hospital where it was reattached and restored.

Lorena, young immigrant, suffered years of domestic violence and marital rape in John Wayne Bobbitt's hands. She decided "no more" and decided to something about it. Ever since, chopping off a man's penis with knife came to be known as 'bobbitising' -- after Lorena Bobbitt of Virginia!