Acid hurled on TN youth set to get married

Chennai, Aug 19 (IANS) Days before his marriage, a youth in Tamil Nadu's Ambur suffered burn injuries in his face, shoulder, and arm when two unidentified motorcycle-borne men hurled acid on him, police said on Thursday.The attack on Shameel Ahamed, who was to marry a woman from Chennai on the coming Monday, occurred on Wednesday.He was admitted to a private hospital in Vellore after first aid in Government General Hospital, Ambur.Ahamed is a worker in a leather footwear manufacturing company and had gone to visit some friends after work when he was attacked.The culprits are yet to be identified but police have registered a case under Section 326 (voluntarily causing grievous injuries by using acid) of the Indian Penal Code.A team of police officers led by Deputy Superintendent of Police, Ambur, N. Saravanan, had reached the spot and have questioned several local people to get a tip-off on the attackers.
--IANS aal/vd