Bareilly: A woman corporator was yesterday seriously injured when local goons here threw acid on her, police said.
A case has been registered against five persons, an official said while informing media that the musclemen had threatened to burn the corporator alive earlier this week. Muskan Devi is a corporator from Para in the city and runs a grocery shop with her husband in the area.
Sita Ram Kashyap, father-in-law of the injured corporator told the police that a few days ago some local goons had come to their shop and tried to force Muskan Devi into giving them some groceries on credit.
When she refused, they started to heckle them and threatened to burn her alive. With locals rushing to her rescue, the goons beat a hasty retreat.
They, however, again came to her house with a bottle full of acid and threw it on her inside the house. The accused have been identified as Amar Singh, Happa, Sunder, Ram Das and Arvind.
Mumbai youth who joined IS returns
Thane: A youth from Maharashtra, who joined the terror group Islamic State (IS) in Iraq, yesterday returned home to India and was being questioned by intelligence agencies.
Arif Majeed, hailing from Kalyan town, arrived by a flight via Turkey around 5.15am yesterday. He was immediately whisked away by intelligence officials to an undisclosed location.
Majeed went “missing” in May along with three other Thane youths — Shahim Tanki, Aman Tandel and Fahad Shaikh.
Later, their families living in and around Kalyan and police came to know that they had reportedly sneaked into Iraq and joined the IS ranks.IANS
