ADITYANATH VISITS RAPE VICTIM FORCED TO DRINK ACID

The Uttar Pradesh government announced on Friday security measures and ~1 lakh for a woman who was allegedly forced to drink acid by two men on board a train, marking the fourth such attack on her by the same group of suspects.

The same group of men have previously allegedly gang-raped her and attacked her with acid, all over a property dispute in her home of Unchahar, 100 kilometres from Lucknow.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath visited the family members of the woman on Friday. Women’s welfare minister Rita Bahuguna Joshi announced the victim and her daughter will get security cover.

The alleged crime came to light after the woman got off the Allahabad-Lucknow Ganga Gomti Express at Lucknow’s Charbagh station on Thursday morning and scribbled her plight on a piece of paper, which she gave to the government railway police.

The two suspects got on the train on the outskirts of Lucknow and forced her to drink acid around 10.30am on Thursday, sources said.

“Acid probably entered her body and her throat area seems to be affected. She is unable to speak and is in tremendous pain,” said Ashish, a volunteer at Lucknow’s Sheroes Hangout Café, an outlet run by acid attack survivors where the woman worked.

The authorities called her friends who took her to a local hospital, where the attending doctor said she was currently stable.

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