LUCKNOW: A couple, who was returning home after attending a function on Sunday night, was attacked by a
group
of youths in Hussainganj.
According to the FIR, the group forcibly stopped the couple and started abusing the woman.
When the husband opposed, they attacked him with some sharp-edged weapon causing him several cut wounds. The man was admitted to a hospital where he underwent 25 stitches in his head.
Police said that Anwar of Hata Rasool Khan along with his wife was returning home on a bike. Around 11.45 pm, when the couple passed via the Chitwapur crossing, a group of youth forcibly got Anwar to stop the bike.
They asked his name and the place which he had visited that night. The group later started abusing the couple and even abused Anwar’s wife.
“We do not know why they stopped us and interrogated us. After asking where we are coming from, they started abusing us. I opposed their act, asking them not to abuse her," he said in his FIR to the police.
Anwar said the youths flew in rage and attacked me with some sharp-edged weapon on the head. “I began to bleed profusely, and we cried for help. The commuters rushed to the scene for our rescue and the accused fled the scene. I was admitted to a hospital where the doctors gave me 25 stitches of cut wounds in my head,” he said.
ADCP, Central Zone, Raghvendra Mishra said that a case under charges of rioting while armed with weapons and criminal intimidation was lodged against accused Deepak aka Golu, Vijay Kumar Kashyap, Vijay, Akash, Karan and Chaman, all of Hussainganj. “The accused have been detained,” he said.