Acid attack case: Cops fail to make any headway

ALLAHABAD: Police have failed to make any headway into the case related to Monday's acid throwing incident reported from Mauaima Bazaar. A youth had thrown acid on his estranged wife and sister-in-law after she refused to withdraw dowry case against him. An FIR was lodged against the youth identified as Jamaluddin and his accomplices Farhat, Shoaib and one another person.Despite raids police failed to nab the accused giving rise to suspicion that the accused had left the city.
Following a fight with Jamaluddin, his wife returned to her parents' house in Sultanpur Khas. Three months back she had moved the family court demanding maintenance allowance. The court verdict had gone against Jamaluddin. Since then he had been harbouring a grudge against his wife.
Victim's family claimed that the accused had been pressurizing the family into withdrawing the case and had even threatened of dire consequences. On Monday, when Jamaluddin's wife Gulshan and her younger sister were on way to appear in an exam along with another person, he threw a bottle of acid on them. It also resulted in injuries to a friend of his sister-in-law. Meanwhile, women organizations have demanded immediate arrest of the accused. Secretary of Progressive Writers Association Sandhya Nivedita said that existing laws have failed to deter such incidents. Another social worker said that authorities must take corrective measures without delay.
As many as five cases of acid throwing were reported in the region in the past two-and-a-half-month.