Two weeks after a 21-year-old girl was attacked with acid by unknown car-borne youngsters outside her law college in Srinagar outskirts, police on Thursday said that two attackers have been arrested for their involvement in the act.
The December 11 attack was largely condemned and resulted in widespread protests. The police were under flak for making no headway in the investigations into the dastardly act though a special investigating team had been formed to track down the attackers. Inspector General of Police (Kashmir range) Abdul Gani Mir said that the attacker has been arrested who was stalking the victim for quite some time.
“The attacker, Irshad Ahmad has turned to be the mastermind in planning this crime,” Mir said adding “his advances being spurned, left him in a vengeful huff and he roped in his friend and business partner Omar to be party to the crime who has both sympathetic as well lured by promised financial gains”. The victim has been airlifted to Chennai for surgery.