In a terrible incident, two motorcycle-borne assailants threw acid at a 24-year-old polytechnic teacher here in the posh locality Arera Colony in daylight on Saturday. The victim has been admitted to private Narmada Hospital with severe burn injuries on her left side.
The police said the assailants stopped near the victim on the pretext of asking some address. When she expressed ignorance and about to leave, the pillion rider on the bike took out a bottle of acid and threw on her. Soon after committing the crime, the miscreants fled the scene.
"The incident took place at around 9:15. am. The 24-year-old woman was going to work when two bikers stopped and asked for an address. When she said she doesn't know, they threw acid on her. She has received burn injuries on left side on her shoulder, arm and on her waist. We are investigating the matter.
She is out of danger now,” said Additional SP Rajesh Singh Chandel. He claimed that the police have launched a manhunt for the attackers.
“I was coming out of Gayatri Mandir when this girl came running. We draped her with a sheet and then took her to Narmada hospital. I do not know the girl, I did it for the sake of humanity,” said an eyewitness.
Meanwhile, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Alok Sanjar, who visited the victim in the hospital, said that he would speak to the collector and the administration in this regard. BJP MlA Vishwas Sarang said it is an unfortunate incident, adding efforts will be initiated so that such kind of incidents never takes place again.
Ironically, Home Minister Babulal Gaur, when media persons asked him about the law and order situation, declined to speak out.
later in the day, the Youth Congress activists staged a protest against the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP government in Madhya Pradesh, over the rising crime against women in the wake of a brutal acid attack on polytechnic teacher.
The protestors criticized the government over the ghastly acid attack and raised slogans- Shivraj teri tanashahi, nahi chalegi nahi chalegi. The agitators also carried posters and banners and burned an effigy as well. One of the placards carried by the Youth Congress workers read ‘Mahilaon par atyachar band karo’.