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Brahmapur:<\/strong> A man allegedly cut off his tongue with a knife outside a temple in Odisha’s Ganjam district Sunday morning, police said.<\/p>\n The incident took place outside a Kali temple at Hansatuli village within Beguniapada police station limits.<\/p>\n The victim, identified as Kiran Patra (36) and a father of two children, works as a labourer abroad and returned to the village recently, they said.<\/p>\n Local people who visited the temple early this morning found him lying in a pool of blood near the shrine’s gate in a critical condition and informed his family and police.<\/p>\n Though the exact reason is unknown, police suspect he might have taken the step due to a family dispute.<\/p>\n He was initially taken to Khallikote community health centre and then shifted to MKCG Medical College and Hospital, a police officer said.<\/p>\n According to Beguniapada police station inspector-in-charge Bhagaban Pujari, Patra’s condition was stated to be stable.<\/p>\n Locals said the couple quarrelled the previous night and Patra’s drastic move could be connected to it, police said.<\/p>\n Police did not register any case in this connection.<\/p>\n