PATNA: Police in eastern India were searching yesterday for six men who allegedly chopped off a 19-year-old man’s fingers before pouring acid into his eyes following a minor dispute, an officer said.
The man was recovering in hospital following the attack late on Thursday in which most of his fingers were hacked off in a village in Bihar state, local police superintendent Chandrika Prasad said.
“He was attacked, beaten half dead, his fingers chopped off and acid poured into his eyes by some people over a dispute,” said Prasad, from Samastipur district where the attack took place.
“Police have began an investigation into the case and raided several places to arrest the named accused in the case, who are absconding after the shocking incident,” he said.
Initial police enquiries found the man was attacked when residents objected to him repairing his motorcycle which had broken down in front of their home in Vanbhaur village, local police official Susdhir Kumar Razak said.
“Some people ordered him not to repair his motorcycle in front of this house but he ignored them, which angered them,” he said.
4 killed, 10 hurt
in LPG explosion
Kolkata: Four people were killed and at least 10 others injured yesterday after an LPG cylinder exploded at a house in the city’s Park Circus area, police said.
“Four people have been killed while 10 others sustained severe burn injuries in the incident,” a police officer said.
Eight fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the flames which erupted after the explosion.
Dissent over stapled visas
New Delhi: India yesterday strongly rebutted China’s stand that its giving stapled visas to the people of Arunachal Pradesh was a “goodwill gesture” and said there should be “no discrimination against visa applicants on grounds of domicile or ethnicity”.
Days after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that Beijing has decided to give stapled visas to people of Arunachal Pradesh, which it lays claim over, “as a gesture of goodwill”, Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh said that “..there should be no discrimination against visa applicants on grounds of domicile or ethnicity. After all we are one people.”
“After all, we are one people. This is the point we have continually made (to the Chinese side),” she added. She was replying to a query on Wang’s remarks at a press conference in New Delhi, during which he acknowledged the Chinese position that in India’s “eastern sector (Arunachal Pradesh) relatively big area is in dispute. It is an objective fact. But the people living there need to interact with each other, and as a special arrangement we have resorted to stapled visas to address the need of the local people to travel.. This is a gesture of goodwill and flexibility.”
Badal wants probe into 1984 riots
New Delhi: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal yesterday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi here and demanded early resolution of a variety of issues, including terrorism, and a probe into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Badal submitted a detailed resolution for containing terrorism, said an official statement issued by Punjab Bhavan here.
He demanded a special enquiry commission under a Supreme Court judge to probe official and political patronage behind the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the statement said.Agencies
