The Mumbai police booked a 30-year-old man Monday, charging him with try and homicide for allegedly pouring petrol on a 17-year-old woman and setting her on hearth after her mom warned him in opposition to assembly her.
The woman is combating for her life at Dr R N Cooper Municipal Basic Hospital after sustaining 60 per cent burn accidents on her face, neck, again, abdomen, personal areas, each arms, and legs. She will barely converse as per her mom’s assertion within the First Info Report (FIR). The accused, Jitendra Chandrakant Tambe alias Jitu, additionally suffered burns on his arms, again, and personal areas, and is receiving remedy on the identical hospital.
The woman lives within the Marol space of Andheri (East) together with her three siblings and oldsters—father a driver, mom a tailor. Based on her mom’s assertion to the police, the woman had recognized the accused, who lives in the identical neighborhood, for the previous yr and a half. Roughly six months in the past, after a neighbour knowledgeable the woman’s mom about her daughter being seen with Jitu within the space, she confronted Jitu and cautioned him in opposition to assembly her daughter.
Late Sunday night time, the woman’s mom acquired a name from a neighborhood resident informing her that somebody had attacked her daughter. She rushed to the placement and located the woman partially burnt. With the assistance of the police, the mom rushed the woman to the hospital.
“We’ve got registered a case beneath sections 124(1) [causing grievous hurt by using acid or other means] and 109 (try and homicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) in opposition to the accused and posted a guard outdoors his ward on the hospital,” mentioned a senior police officer.
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