Married jilted lover who was in one-sided love with the victim had thrown acid on the 24-year-old Polytechnic teacher on Saturday. The police have arrested the man and his friend from his Dongargarh (Rajnandgaon district) in Chhattisgarh.
While talking to media persons here on Sunday, DIG Raman Singh Sikarwar told that the main accused is Trilokchand Namdeo and his friend Shubham Tiwari helped him in committing the crime. Trilokchand and Shubham had come to Bhopal on their motorcycle on June 17 from Dongargarh and on the way they had purchased acid and a veil (Burka). On reaching Bhopal he had checked in hotel Amar at MP Nagar.
Sikarwar further said that on the day of the incident, Trilokchand contacted the victim to assure that she had left for the college or not and when he got confirmed that she has left for the college he along with the accomplice attacked the victim with acid, injuring her in her left shoulder and arm. At the time of the incident, Shubham was riding the bike while the main accused was riding pillion wearing veil.
They reached near the victim and asked for the address and while she was providing the address the main accused threw acid and the two fled the spot.
The DIG informed that In June, 2015, victim’s cousin sister Ankita got married in Dongargarh. During marriage, Trilokchand, who is brother-in-law of her sister Anikita came in contact. Trilokchand is already married and wanted to marry victim Shailja by giving divorce to his wife.
Namdeo who owns an electronic shop was pressurising the victim to get married but she refused the proposal. During investigation, the parents of the victim had also indicated that Trilokchand had approached for marrying Shailja, while in her statement Shailja had also told that he was behind her.
On this, the police had laid a trap at Trilokchand’s residence in Dongargarh and as soon as he reached there, police caught him.
During interrogation, Trilokchand told police that due to rejection, he got infuriated and he decided to throw acid over victim’s face so that no one would marry her.
He used to call the victim and send messages and when he proposed her for marriage, the victim stopped communicating with the accused.
He also told police that soon after committing the crime, they had left for Itarsi and there, they book the bike on railway wagon for Dongargarh and reached home by train.
Meanwhile, the victim is undergoing treatment at a private hospital where her condition is reportedly stable.