Sahibabad police have arrested four youths, including a girl, for their involvement in a conspiracy and allegedly throwing acid on a 24-year-old woman at Mohan nagar trisection on Tuesday.
The accused girl was also the victim's roommate and her office colleague. The girl allegedly hatched the conspiracy with the others as she was envious of the woman's affairs with a boy.
Senior Superintendent of Police Vaibhav Krishna told reporters that the victim woman is a bank employee and on the morning of March 20, two persons threw acid on her, due which she, along with five others, suffered burn injuries. All of them were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.
The incident took place when the victims were waiting for buses and auto rickshaws to reach their work places.
Based of a tip off, police arrested four men and a girl from Bhopura trisection at Loni road today. During interrogation, the girl confessed that she and the victim woman were employed in Noida and were also sharing a room. In the meantime, the victim fell in love with a boy and started maintaining distance from the girl, leaving her envious. This led to several heated arguments between them and ultimately they ended up their friendship.
The girl said she was highly annoyed and depressed due to her roommate's "callous attitude" and decided to teach her a lesson. She followed the woman daily to her work place in an auto, and became acquainted with an auto driver Lokesh and his helper Ravi. The girl later hatched a conspiracy with them to deface the woman with acid so that her relationship with the boy could be fractured.
The two men had agreed to throw acid on the woman after the girl accepted their demand of paying Rs one lakh.
It was when they met to settle a part of the deal that police arrested them.
Two other youths have also been nabbed for selling acid which that was thrown on the woman.
An FIR was lodged by the victim's brother against the accused girl, the officer said, adding all the arrested accused have been sent to jail.
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