A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich awarded 20 years of rigorous imprisonment to two men on Wednesday for throwing acid on a 17-year-old girl after she rejected the advances of one the convicts in 2020. The court also imposed Rs 1 lakh fine each on Ehtesham, alias Saddam, and Suhail, alias PK Baba, who attacked the Class 12 girl returning from her coaching classes in Bahraich’s Kotwali area on Dec 21, 2020.
“Ehtesham had been harassing the girl to marry him.He kept troubling her with text messages on her mobile,” said police. Statements of a woman witness, and the text messages corroborated the victim’s testimony, police said.
“Ehtesham had been harassing the girl to marry him.He kept troubling her with text messages on her mobile,” said police. Statements of a woman witness, and the text messages corroborated the victim’s testimony, police said.