At least seven persons, including two women, were injured in an acid attack at Kanakpur village under the Kanpur police station of Cuttack district on Thursday morning when members of two neighbouring families quarrelled over a petty matter.
Cuttack Rural SP Gurudas Kundu informed that all the seven injured persons are undergoing treatment at a local hospital and they are now out of danger. He further informed that two separate cases have been registered in the local police station and no one was arrested till late on Thursday evening.The police said the families picked up quarrel early in the morning over dumping of garbage consisting of food leftovers after a community feast. The family of one Sadasiba Das had arranged a community feast on Wednesday evening and the leftovers were strewn in their backyard.
However on Thursday morning, some dirty plates with food remains were found lying in front of the house of Sadasiba’s neighbour Kailash Moharana. Soon, both the families entered into a quarrel leading to scuffles and fisticuffs.The fight took a serious turn when some women members of Moharana’s family threw toiled acid on the other warring family injuring five of them, eyewitnesses said, adding that two women members of the Moharana family were also injured in it.