A Bangladeshi woman cut off a man’s penis to thwart an alleged rape attempt and took it to the police as evidence.
Monju Begum, 40, attacked the man in Bangladesh after he burst into her shack and launched his sex attack.
The victim then wrapped up the manhood in polythene before handing it over to officers, police said.
Mozammel Haq Mazi was rushed to hospital where he is being treated, but is denying attempted rape.
The married father-of-five claimed that he was having an affair with the mother-of-three and that she attacked him because he refused to settle down with her.
“We were having an affair and recently she suggested that both of us can go and settle down in Dhaka,” the Daily Mail quoted Mazi as telling the BBC.
“I refused and told her that I cannot leave my wife and children, so she took revenge on me,” he said.
Begum, from Mirzapur, which is around 100 miles from Dhaka, had apparently been sleeping when the man burst into her home.
Surgeons later tried to re-attach the penis but they were unable to do so because several hours had passed before it was taken to the hospital.