A woman and her son suffered serious burn injuries after some persons threw acid on them in Triveniganj locality of Barabanki in the wee hours of Thursday. local police, which shifted the victims to District Hospital from where both were referred to Medical College here at lucknow, cited a petty two months old dispute as a possible reason behind the attack. Further investigations are on and a case has been registered.
Reports said that Prabha Devi, a native of Triveniganj in loni Katra, who is running a tea stall outside her house was sleeping along with her son Pankaj outside their shop on Wednesday night. In the wee hours of Thursday, some unknown miscreants threw acid on the duo and escaped. Both were critically injured and shifted to Hospital. local police claimed that two months back Pankaj had a tiff with one Ram Asre over making payment of tea. It seems that Ram Asre and his associates were involved in the crime just to avenge that incident, local police claimed.
Meanwhile in Saharanpur also, two persons were killed just over a petty dispute in the wee hours of Thursday. Reports said that Chandrapal Singh Thakur (46), a resident of Khudhabaksh in Badagaon locality in Saharanpur along with one of his employee Shyuraj (45), went to sleep on their tube-well on Wednesday night. In the wee hours of Thursday, local villagers heard gun-shots and rushed to the tube-well and were shocked to find both lying dead. Family members who lodged a case claimed that they had some dispute over distribution of crop produced from the fields last year and apprehended that the opposite party executed the killings. A case has been registered and both the bodies were sent for post-mortem examination.