A 16-year-old girl student of class X of Kasturba residential girl high school, Dumari, was found injured by acid in her room under mysterious circumstance on Wednesday. The victim was identified as Veena Kumari a resident of Taliatunda village under the Nimiaghat police station.
SDPO Arbind Kumar Vinaha said an investigation was underway. The girl in her statement to the local police claimed that she was burnt while doing some practical in her room on Wednesday morning.
The police maintain that as per the statement this was a case of mishap, but said they would investigate how the girl was burnt. Dumari sub-divisional police officer Arbind Kumar Vinaha said that he visited to the hospital’s burnt care and also visited her hostel room to take the statement of the victim. “It was a difficult task as the girl had sustained burns on her face and was not in a condition to speak. But from the condition of the victim, I assumed that it must be case of mistake,” he said.
He stated that the kin of the victims’s family have claimed that this was not a mishap and the police . On Tuesday she had bring a bottle of sulphuric acid in her room and started a practical in the morning and she done some mistake and reasoned it to be the cause of incident.