A 16-year-old girl sustained severe burn injuries by a 19-year-old youth after he threw an acid like substance at her for refusing his marriage proposal. The incident happened in East Delhi's Trilokpuri area on Wednesday. The victim, who has sustained 40 per cent burn injuries is a Class IX student in a Government school and has been part of several self defence programmes organised by the Delhi Police and the National Cadet Corps (NCC).
Police said that they have registered a case at the Mayur Vihar police station. No arrest has been made so far, confirmed a senior police officer.
According to a senior police officer, the incident took place on Wednesday evening in the Trilokpuri area when the 16-year-old girl was at home with her two brothers and mother.
As per the statement given by the victim to police, she met 19-year-old Charanjeet Singh alias Sunny while she had gone for vacations to her maternal aunt's house in ludhiana. Here, they became acquaintance.
On Tuesday, Charanjeet came to Delhi and stayed at the minor girl's home and at night, asked the girl's mother to allow him to marry the victim.
"My mother became furious and turned down the marriage proposal. The next day, ie on Wednesday morning, he asked me to go with him to ludhiana where we will get married. However, I refused and asked him to leave me.
20 minutes after he left the house, Charanjeet returned with bottle of acid. He poured the bottle on me," said the 16-year-old girl in her statement to police.
The senior police officer said, "Hearing the minor girl's cries of help, her mother and brothers came out of their respective rooms and rushed her to a nearby hospital.
It was only on Wednesday evening that we received information about the matter from the hospital.
Police said that they have registered a case under relevant sections of the IPC at the Mayur Vihar police station against the accused. The accused is absconding and efforts are being made to nab him, said police.