In a gruesome incident, unidentified robbers chopped of the finger of a woman on which she was wearing a gold ring and fled with it here, police said today.
The incident occurred on August 24 when the 54-year-old victim was travelling in a local bus, Assistant Police Inspector (API) Sharaddha Vaidande of Thane Nagar Police Station said.
The robbers sprayed some poisonous chemical on her finger after which it became numb and immediately chopped it. They fled away with her 5 gram gold ring worth Rs 10,000, the woman was wearing in that finger, the API said.
According to the official, the woman was admitted to a local hospital and discharged on August 28.
Following her complaint, a case under section 326A (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by use of acid ) and 329 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act) of IPC has been registered against unidentified persons and investigations are underway, they added.
