An unidentified man threw acid at a woman and her four-year-old son in Delhi’s Bharat Nagar area, police said.
The incident occurred on Thursday evening while the woman, who is a roadside vendor, was setting up her goods at a weekly market.
According to the police, the attacker approached her from inside a nearby park at around 8 p.m. and threw acid toward her. Currently, no arrests have been made in the case.
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“The woman told the police about the chemical attack while she was selling clothes on the footpath,” a senior police official said.
Police teams are probing the incident from all angles including personal enmity, the official added.
In the last month, Police in Karnataka’s Ramnagar district have launched a hunt to nab a 22-year-old man who attacked a minor girl with acid in Kanakapura town following which he disappeared.
According to the police, the victim has been admitted to the Minto Eye Hospital in Bengaluru and the doctors have stated that she might lose an eye.
The man has been identified as Sumanth, a mechanic, and resident of Kurupete in Kanakapura. The incident had taken place near the Narayanappa Lake bypass road in Kanakapura.
investigations suggested that the accused had made a call to the victim and asked her to come to the area. When she came, he tried to convince her to be in a relationship with him but the girl.
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