A 35-year-old lady, her minor son, and daughter, who suffered accidents when a person barged into their home and threw acid at them at Shivpur in Bihar’s Rohtas on September 29, have accused police of inaction. They alleged police refused to initially register a case and threatened to implicate them in one other case in the event that they spoke to the press.
Dev Raj Ray, a police officer, denied the allegation and stated they rushed to an area hospital to search out the victims however that they had been referred to a different hospital.
He added a particular investigation staff was fashioned and it arrested the accused, Sumant Sah, 24 hours after taking cognizance of the matter. Ray stated Sah is a neighbour of the victims and concerned in a land dispute with their household.
Police superintendent Ashish Bharti stated Sah has confessed to the crime. “The battery from which the acid was taken, the bottle, and the mug used to throw acid had been recovered.”
On April 17 evening, a 22-year-old singer and her brother had been critically injured when two males threw acid at them in Bikramganj. A forty five-year-old lady was injured in one other acid assault at Narkatiaganj in West Champaran on Could 21. On Could 28, a 17-year-old lady and a 45-year-old lady acquired burns in acid assaults at Muzaffarpur and Patna.
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