Eunuchs severed my penis-India 24jul03

Man: eunuchs severed my penis From correspondents in Shimla, India 24jul03 AN Indian villager who once played drums with a travelling band of eunuchs has accused his former companions of drugging him and cutting off his penis, police said today. An Indian villager who once played drums with a travelling band of eunuchs has accused his former companions of drugging him and cutting off his penis, police said today. Sonu, a 21-year-old from the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, said he was persuaded this week to head to the industrial city of Ludhiana in neighbouring Punjab state with two eunuchs. I was given tranquilisers in my food and once I fell unconscious crude surgery was carried out to remove my penis, said Sonu in a complaint filed to police yesterday. He said he was taken south to Agra, home of the celebrated monument to love, the Taj Mahal, where he regained his senses and learned to his horror that his penis was missing. The deputy superintendent of police for Kangra in Himachal Pradesh, Vimukt Ranjan, said police were investigating the motives for the alleged maiming. Sonu – a member of Hinduism's lowest caste the Dalits, earlier known as untouchables – said he had roamed the Kangra Valley with eunuchs for two years playing drums. Eunuchs in India are ostracised by their families and earn their living by entertaining weddings and other parties or by prostitution or begging. Most Indian eunuchs are not actually castrated but have been marginalised since birth because of their ambiguous gender.