A 22-year-girl was critically injured when a jilted lover threw acid on her face in Inchuli locality of Meerut on Tuesday evening. local police which rushed to the spot later registered a case and claimed to have launched a hunt for the accused who was absconding from his house.
Reports said that Sangeeta (name changed) a resident of Ganganagar, whose father retired from Army was returning home from her computer classes. The accused intercepted her and before the girl could thought of any foul play, he threw acid on the her face and fled the spot. The victim, an MBA student, was rushed to a hospital immediately and has sustained injuries on her neck, face and hand. The local police after probe claimed that prima facie it appears to be a case of one sided love. The parents of the girl have named Prince Kapuriya of Jammu in their complaint. The father of the girl claimed that the youth was in love with the girl three years ago when the family lived in Jammu and he now came trailing her even when she out rightly rejected his offer.
In another incident, a Dalit youth was allegedly battered to death by two youths on suspicion of being a thief in Fakharpur locality of Bahraich. Reports said that 28-year-old Nankau, a resident of Fakharpur was lynched by Pradeep Mishra and Kuldeep Mishra who claimed to have took him as thief in Janakpur hamlet on Monday night. Nankau died while being taken to a hospital. A case was registered against both the accused and both were arrested.
Meanwhile eight persons including a sub-inspector died in separate cases of mishaps in separate cases. In the first case reported from Shahjahenpur, sub-inspector, Rajendra Singh (42), slipped out of Faizabad-Delhi Express near Baitalya hamlet of Katra in Shahjahenpur in Tuesday evening. He was on his way to Delhi when he met with accident. In another incident reported from Hathras, a woman was killed while half a dozen of her family members were injured. The incident took place when a car in which they were travelling was hit by a truck in Sadabad area of Hathras on Tuesday night. The victim was identified as Anju Agarwal. She was wife of Raj Kumar Agarwal, whose brother Devendra Agarwal, is a SP MlA. Raj Kumar along with his family members was returning to Hathras from a religious function. In a separate incident reported from Mathura, three villagers, including a father-son duo, allegedly died after inhaling poisonous gas when they went inside a well to take out bucket that had fallen into it in Jatav Basti hamlet of Tentigaon on Wednesday. Reports said that Jeevan Devi was washing clothes at the well when her bucket fell into the well. When she cried for help, Pappu (40) went inside but when he not came out, another villager Suresh (38) went to look for him but he too not came out. later Pappu’s son Sushil (20) also went into the well, but he, too met the same fate. Finally, two more villagers, Gyanendra and Sriniwas, went into the well with the help of a rope but they felt uneasy midway and were pulled out. later the villagers somehow pulled out Pappu, Suresh and Sushil out of the well and rushed them to hospital ut they were pronounced dead. In Sitapur, three persons, including two children, were killed and six injured when a jeep ploughed through them in Hargaon area of Sitapur on Wednesday. A case was registered in this regard and efforts were made to maintain identity of the victim.