Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday expressed doubts over the alleged acid attack on a gang rape victim in Lucknow, saying “it needs to be seen if actually, an attack happened”.
“This turns out to be the sixth acid attack on the woman. I had visited her at the KGMU (in March) and then we made arrangements for her treatment and security. She was kept in a secure place under police protection,” he said. “Law is for theprotection of people, but if someone misuses it for whatever reasons or to victimize someone, then we will act against such people too,” he added.
The woman had lodged at least eight FIRs against the two accused and their accomplices.
The repeated attacks on the woman, first targeted with acid in 2011, also indicated at the easy availability of acid in the state despite an SC ban on its open sale. Acid attack was made a separate category of crime in 2013 amid growing incidents of revenge on women who spurn sexual advances or reject marriage proposals.
