A man tore the ear lobes of a 47-year-old woman while pulling out her gold earrings on a busy road in west Delhi, leaving her grievously injured and in need of plastic surgery, police said on Thursday.
The incident happened near Uttam Nagar (east) Metro station at around 6pm on Tuesday, when Vandana Sharma, who lives nearby, was returning home from a relative’s funeral in north Delhi’s Shakti Nagar. “She got off a bus near Uttam Nagar bus terminal and was walking back home when she was targeted,” said her husband Manoj Sharma, who works for a private firm.
Vandana Sharma said that someone approached her from behind and used both his hands to pluck her earrings from her ears. “One earring immediately tore through my left ear and came off. Since the other earring wasn’t coming off, he kept pulling it till the ear lobe tore,” she said, adding that the man appeared to be in his twenties
