Woman faces acid attack in marital dispute in UP

Banda (Uttar Pradesh), June 25 (IANS) A woman has received burn injuries on her face after she was attacked with acid here on Wednesday evening.The 24-year-old woman was returning from a police station where she had gone to record her statement in a case filed regarding a dispute with her husband.SHO of Kotwali police station, Dinesh Singh said three men on a motorbike had thrown acid on the woman and she was being treated for burn injuries at the district hospital.Based on a complaint lodged by the woman's father, an FIR has been registered against her husband Santram Tiwari, brother-in-law Jageshwar Shukla and an unidentified person.The SHO said that efforts were on to arrest the accused at the earliest.
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