Nagpur: An alert Ashika Khote, 24, was quick to move her two-year-old son Ayan away from his father Vikas who attempted to stab him with a knife in Thakre Layout on Thursday.
After injuring the boy on his left leg, Vikas picked up a stone and hurled it at Ashika leaving her seriously injured. He then fled the spot.
It’s learnt that Vikas and Ashika had a love marriage around six years ago. They have two sons. Ashika met Vikas when she had gone to meet a relative in Chandrapur.
Ashika married Vikas without knowing about his criminal past in Chandrapur. He started torturing her after marriage and compelled her to return to the city to stay with her mother at Thakre Layout. She started working as a cook at different places to sustain herself and also to bring up her two sons. It’s learnt that Ashika had come back to her mother’s place when she was pregnant for the second time.
Ashika said that Vikas would come to meet his sons but doubted her character. “Vikas wanted me to step out of the house to speak to him but I refused. He got enraged by my refusal and started bickering,” she said.
“He tried to attack my son by questioning his fatherhood. I offered to get a DNA test done which angered him further more. Due to my alertness, I managed to save my son, who suffered a slash on his leg,” she said.
Koradi police have registered an offence of attempt to murder against Vikas but he is yet to be arrested.