Rajasthan: Woman plots acid attack on colleague for not marrying her

UDAIPUR: Hiran Magri police on Thursday arrested three people, including a woman, for throwing acid on a person for turning down the marriage proposal of the woman.

Naija Hussain, the woman, allegedly gave Rs 40,000 to her boss to have acid thrown at her colleague by a third party. The boss chose his younger brother to do it, police said.
Abhishek Singh, the victim, son of one Samundar Singh Rathore and a resident of Sector 3 in the city, is an engineer at a cement factory at Dabok and Naija is his colleague.
On May 7, he informed police that an unidentified man threw acid on his back when he was waiting for his boss, Roshan Singh Rathore, to pick him up for work at Sevashram bridge. Later, police arrested the woman, Roshan Singh, and his brother Vikram for the crime.
Ram Sumer, SHO of Hiran Magri, said Abhishek and the accused woman, Naija Hussain, a resident of Silawatwadi in Udaipur, were engineers and Roshan their boss at the cement factory at Dabok.
Abhishek and the woman were close friends. However, his family fixed his marriage with some other girl and the wedding was due on May 23. Abhishek called off his relationship with Naija when she exerted pressure on him for marriage, police said.
“This infuriated the woman who wanted to teach Abhishek a lesson. She befriended Roshan and became close to him, so that she could take revenge. Abhishek used to go to work by bus, but since the lockdown, Roshan used to pick him at Sevashram bridge and they went together. Taking advantage of the situation, she convinced Roshan to get acid thrown on Abhishek's body so that he could be hurt but not killed,” the SHO said.
Roshan took his brother Vikram into confidence and assigned him to carry out the attack, said police. “Roshan provided the acid from his factory and Vikram threw it on Abhishek's back and fled from the spot,” the SHO said.
Abhishek returned home and when Roshan called to ask why he wasn't at the bridge, he told about the attack.
Roshan expressed sympathy and picked him up from home and took him to a hospital for treatment.
The CCTV footage from the crime spot showed up Vikram in the area. When he was picked up for questioning, he spilled the beans, police said.