An 18-year-old girl was seriously injured after a jilted lover threw acid over her body in Azamgarh on Wednesday morning. The victim, who was rushed to District Hospital, has been later referred to Trauma Centre here at lucknow after finding her condition to be `critical’. A case has been also registered in this regard and efforts were on to nab the culprit who absconded soon after making an attack.
Reports said that Amarjeet, a native of Rabi Bahauddinpur area of Akbarnagar in Ambedkarnagar district was trying to lure his 18-year-old neighborhood girl for a long time. The girl warned the boy on several occasion but the accused kept following her. The matter took an ugly turn when recently the girl warned the boy either to stop following her or she will report the matter to the local police.
According to the family members of the girl, after she warned of lodging a FIR, the accused threatened that he will damage her beauty so if he could not marry her than no one other will also marry her. The family members said that finally on Wednesday morning, when the victim was going to attend her classes, the accused came and threw acid all over her body in which she was badly injured. The passersby immediately took her to hospital and informed her family members. Raids were now conducted to nab the accused.
Meanwhile in a separate case reported from Bhadohi, a 20-year-old woman and her
paramour allegedly committed suicide by jumping into a pond in Rayan area of the district. Reports said that Dheeraj (22), a Dalit was having an affair with his cousin for the past sometime which was being opposed by their respective families. The woman's family had married her off elsewhere and she was to go to her in-laws' house in four days, police said, adding that the two disappeared on Monday night and their bodies were recovered on Wednesday morning from the pond. The bodies, which were tied together at the waist with a muffler, have been sent for postmortem, police said, adding that prima facie it appears to be a case of suicide.