New Delhi:

A 17-year-old lady has been hospitalised with critical accidents after two males on a motorbike threw acid at her in southwest Delhi’s Dwarka space right now.

The lady’s father instructed the media that the chemical had splashed throughout her face and in addition entered her eyes. The lady, police mentioned, has recognized two suspects and one in all them has been detained.

Shocking footage of the incident was captured by a CCTV digicam within the space. The visuals present the 2 women strolling by the roadside when a motorbike slows down and one of many riders throws a liquid substance from a glass on the 17-year-old. She is then seen holding her face and operating, clearly in excessive ache. Eyewitnesses mentioned the lady ran to a neighbour who helped wash the chemical off her face.   

“My daughters, one aged 17 and the other 13, were out together this morning. Suddenly, two men on a bike threw acid at my elder daughter and drove away. They had covered their faces,” the lady’s father instructed the media.

On being requested if his daughter had complained about harassment by anybody, her father mentioned, “No, she did not. If she had, I would have accompanied her everywhere. The sisters would travel to school together in Metro.”

NDTV additionally spoke to the lady’s mom. She too mentioned that {the teenager} had not spoken at dwelling about anybody disturbing her.

Senior police officer M Harsh Vardhan mentioned the police has detained one suspect and is searching for the opposite. Multiple groups have been fashioned to trace him down, he mentioned. 

Delhi girls’s panel chief Swati Maliwal expressed concern over the incident, questioning why the sale of acid can’t be restricted in order that such heinous crimes could be prevented.

देश की राजधानी में दिन दहाड़े एक स्कूली बच्ची पर 2 बदमाश दबंगई से तेज़ाब फेंककर निकल जाते हैं… क्या किसी को भी अब क़ानून का डर है ? क्यों तेज़ाब पर बैन नहीं लगाया जाता ? SHAME pic.twitter.com/kaWWQYey7A

— Swati Maliwal (@SwatiJaiHind) December 14, 2022

“Two goons throw acid at a school girl in broad daylight in the country’s capital. Does anyone still fear the law? Why can’t the sale of acid be banned? Shame,” she tweeted.

She mentioned in one other put up that acid is accessible as simply as greens and questioned why the federal government was not prohibiting its retail sale. She mentioned the Delhi girls’s panel had demanding this ban for years. “When will governments wake up?”