Court in North Gujarat awards life imprisonment to Acid-attack culprit

Mahesana:

A local court here today awarded life imprisonment to a youth who had thrown acid over a girl who had refused his love-proposal.

The session court pronounced lifer for 23 year old Hardik Prajapati, a resident of Shaikhpuara village under Vadnagar Taluka of Mahesana district.

He had in February 2016, thrown acid on the face of an 18-year-old girl near the gate of her college in Nagalpur locality.

The girl, also a relative of the culprit had refused to accept his love and marriage proposal. The victim girl, who had sustained severe burn injury in her face is a resident of Ramosana locality of Mehsana and was a first year student of commerce at the Nagalpur Commerce College.

The boy, who was brother of the victims sister in-law was an engineering student at the time of the incident. The accused was booked under the amended Section 326 (A) of the IPC – voluntarily causing grievous hurt by use of acid which has provision of imprisonment.

DeshGujarat